Play Directory

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Introduction

Problem

What defines the play value of a playground product?
What spectrum of user experience does a playground company offer?
How can a designer teach language and metrics to stakeholders to persuade experimental ideas?

Methods

Every element of a playground product that contributes to user experience needs to be defined
The product information should be interconnected (ontological) & crowd-sourced

Subcategory

Playground products

Spin Max

Merry Go Round

Roller Slide

Spring Rider

Sand Digger

Product Directory

Add product: Guided sequence of questions about playground product. Question sequence designed to teach user how to understand complexity of playground product

Edit product description: Edit product response

Delete product: Delete entire product from directory

Search product criteria: Apply criteria incrementally to evaluate product matches

View product description: View each answer to product questions

View user's play perspective: Search by playground product or play question to view user's qualitative play response

Learn play theory: Learn play types, Jean Piaget learning theory, and Jerome Bruner play theory

Directory question sequence

Freestanding | Structure

User Interaction

Physical Product Design

User Experience

Supporting Detail

Freestanding | Structure: Playground products are either a component of a play structure or exist independently from a playstructure

Physical Product Design: Product material, product motion, shape motif, does it allow easy user access?

User Interaction: Body parts crucial for product usage, type of physical movement on product

User Experience: Bruner & Paiget learning theories, percentage of indepedent play, intellectual involvement with product play

Supporting Detail: Written explanation in play theory categories

References

Hughes, B. (2002) A Playworker's Taxonomy of Play Types, 2nd edition, London: PlayLink.
Boyle, D. G. A Students Guide to Piaget. Elsevier Science, 2014.
Bruner Jérôme Seymour. Toward a Theory of Instruction. Harvard University Press, 1982.