There are alternatives to PowerPoint, and to playing Devil’s Advocate. Filling a space with foosball tables and slides doesn’t inherently make a space “playful”. Joining Lucy to discuss how play forms the basis for so much of their creativity, are Brendan Boyle and Michelle Lee-Schmidt from global design form IDEO.
Brendan is the founder of the IDEO Play Lab, adjunct professor at Stanford, board member of the National Institute of Play and an award-winning author of the Klutz Book of Inventions. Michelle is Managing Director of IDEO's Play Lab, where she leads an integrated research design and development team, bringing engaging, interactive, and playful experiences to market.
Things to consider
- What some think of as flow or engagement is, in fact, play.
- Play can be a superpower that helps us take on the world.
- We don’t need to seek permission to play as much as we assume we might.
- There are other roles we can play in meetings, aside from Devil’s Advocate.
Links
- Connect with Michelle on LinkedIn
- Connect with Brendan on LinkedIn
- Visit IOEO’s Play Lab
- Make Work Play
- Playfilled