{"id":80,"date":"2014-07-14T09:15:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T13:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/?p=80"},"modified":"2016-03-18T08:27:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T12:27:43","slug":"gamestorming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/gamestorming\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamestorming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_132\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/gamestorming_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132\" class=\"wp-image-132 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/gamestorming_cover-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"Gamestorming Book Cover\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/gamestorming_cover-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/gamestorming_cover.jpg 761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gamestorming<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Gamestorming<\/em> is a book that every UXer should have in their UX toolkit. Written by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo, this book walks you through the core skills of brainstorming and provides over 80 games that foster ideation, collaboration, and communication among teams.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s really nice is this book is a quick weekend read so you can put things into action when you get to the office on Monday. \u00a0This book is great for those new to facilitating group sessions, but also seasoned facilitators who are looking for new ways to mix things up. \u00a0For each game they define the object of play, number of participants, length of the activity, rules for playing, and the strategy behind the game.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from being a practical guide, <em>Gamestorming<\/em> goes into the philosophy of game design itself, which is a great way of understanding the process of arriving at solutions to challenges. \u00a0Not only is understanding this approach helpful in developing games, but it\u2019s great for tackling challenges in life, too.<\/p>\n<p>The authors also go into how anyone can draw using just 12 glyphs, which seems almost too simple. \u00a0But if you try it, you\u2019ll see they\u2019re right.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a companion website called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamestorming.com\/\">Gamestorming.com<\/a>, where anyone can read about games submitted by other users or submit your own to share.<\/p>\n<p>Published by O&#8217;Reilly and available on <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/0596804172\">Amazon.com<\/a>, list price: $29.99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamestorming is a book that every UXer should have in their UX toolkit. Written by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo, this book walks you through the core skills of brainstorming and provides over 80 games that foster ideation, collaboration, and communication among teams. What\u2019s really nice is this book is a quick weekend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews","tag-ux-toolkit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4krkE-1i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}