Fascinated by the deck of cards as a writing medium (Oblique Strategies, The Art of Game Design, IDEO Methods). just published a new deck, "idk": exercises for productive discomfort. productivediscomfort.org
Started a log of my experiences:
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Just packed my Oblique Strategies deck in a bag for some writing a moment ago.
Looking forward to checking this. Thanks.
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I loved the concept but in practice Oblique did nothing for me :( thanks for logging!
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Interesting! I really love Oblique!
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totally agree about the surface treatment—I'm looking for a supplier for the next print run which can do the microtexturing
know anyone?
(and 🙏 thanks for the log!)
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Sorry, I'm clueless about that—maybe would share who printed The Art of Game Design: A Deck of Lenses?
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Another example is this PhD publication by designwithintent.co.uk/introduction-t (2010) with “provocative gambits” rather than “definitive patterns” since “we don’t have enough information about what works and what doesn’t in different situations to be able to be that specific”.
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Thanks Sander. happy to have a chat about card decks as "authored medium". With the New Metaphors cards imaginari.es/new-metaphors/ we explicitly saw our selection process of the concepts to include as being a kind of authorship or maybe curatorship. idk looks intriguing!
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I desperately wish I could buy a deck of E-ink cards to simulate a vast number of tools like these. Not just to divine the thoughts and patterns of others but also the thoughts and patterns of myself
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i would get this
it might be possible to do it very clunkily with e-ink SKU display units but the UX of cards would just not be the same
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