Dan Saffer had a pretty interesting analogy here- comparing Vegas to sites like My Space and eBay.
- Vegas as an analogy for why seemingly “undesigned” sites seem to work
- “Disorder is only an order we cannot see”
- How does class affect design?
- Want to go to Paris, without dealing with French
- No more of 1 function per building, in Vegas, 1 building = everything
- Less is more OR less is a bore and more is more
- Don’t need an undo, you can’t break Las Vegas
- The familiar, that is a little off, is strange and revealing
- For example the statue of liberty at New York New York
- Vegas understands User Experience
- Oxygen, time unnecessary- ceilings painted like daytime sky
- Vegas org around a pattern of activities, as is My Space= everything anyone might want to do on the web in one place
- Tiered levels of functionality (slots vs high stakes poker)
- Slots- how design at micro level
- Specifc audience- women >55, disposable income= design decisions
- Must be able to be seen by legally blind
- Feedback for everything >400 dif sounds
- We can overcome class divide using irony, sometimes we get too serious about what we do
- Fun, bold, bright- learn from Vegas
