Videos
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Brain Arcade: The Hidden Art of UX
I recently reconnected with an old buddy of mine, Mr. Chris Cross, who has been a mainstay in the Los Angeles game design community for decades. I've been getting into podcasts recently, so I wanted to support his latest initiative to branch out into this space and help game developers better understand player psychology and what really makes gamer brains tick. Topics discussed include:
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Indie Game Business: UX & User Testing for Games
Hosted by Jay Powell and Dan "Indie" Long, the Indie Game Business Podcast helps independent game developers better understand the sometimes overlooked business and marketing side of indie game development. Ed recently joined Jay and Dan to talk shop about all things UX, including:
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Mindscape Podcast: The Future of Spatial Experience Design and Computing
In this podcast, Amped-UX founder Edward Moore tag-teams with David LaFontaine, Author of "Social Media Design For Dummies", to discuss the present and future design trends in the exciting realm of Spatial Experience Design for virtual and augmented reality. |
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Toptal Fireside Chat with Edward Moore
"In this online talk, hosted by Toptal Community Program Manager, Eva Borgojes Rodriguez, UX Design Consultant Edward Moore shares insights from his design career. He describes the unique challenges and opportunities of working in Video Game UX, and his experiences working with start-ups inside and outside of the games industry to uncover emerging forms of spatial experience design for virtual and augmented reality. |
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Indie World Con- Demystifying UX for Indie Devs
"In this presentation, AMPED-UX founder Edward Moore gives a brief overview of what user experience is all about. This includes some insightful video links discussing psychology and bias, as well as lightweight "guerilla" UX research tactics that indie game developers can use to better understand their communities and align their game design choices to their audience." |
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SoCal UX Camp 2016 - Frontiers of VR UX
In this talk, UX Design & Gamification Strategist Edward Moore shares his insights and experiences within the emerging field of Virtual Reality in Los Angeles and how the rules of human computer interaction are rapidly changing. With anecdotes and experiences from multiple years of working on VR projects as a freelancer, Ed shares everyday, practical tactics for rapidly emerging VR/AR UX design conventions, how to adapt traditional user research methods toward VR projects, novel ways of leveraging game engines for rapid prototyping, and more! This talk was originally presented at Cal State Fullerton at Socal UX Camp on August 6, 2016. |
Publications
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"Adobe XD components empower designers with powerful features. Still, they're quirky and need special care. This Adobe XD tutorial shows designers how to leverage them to streamline their workflows."
Originally Published by The Toptal Design Blog on November 17, 2020
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"...if you don't have any space, it tells you you're out of room, and nothing more. This is an error, and good UX designs don't permit users to make errors, they handle them."
Republished with permission at Kotaku.com on April 3rd, 2017
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"Because MegaTen is all about the ordinary lives becoming inconceivably unordinary, it has to be connected to modern society somehow. To accomplish that, we often adapt concepts theorized in cutting-edge science into the game."
Originally Published by The Escapist on November 10, 2010
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"The games of the MegaTen franchise offer a captivating blend of old-school, tough-as-nails turn-based role-playing combat, while pushing the envelop of player choice and interactivity in their own distinctively intriguing way."
Originally Published by The Escapist on November 9, 2010
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"It was during these beloved halcyon summer nights in the mid 1980s that my love for Sega games probably first started, and no game more powerfully evokes poignant memories from this magical time than Sega's arcade driving masterpiece, Out Run."
Originally Published by The Escapist on February 20, 2007
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