Here’s a provocative interaction-design thought experiment: What if your iPhone was just, like, a ball.
You wouldn’t be able to check Twitter on it, and you wouldn’t be able to take selfies with it, but you would be able to roll it around, and if you happened to be playing a videogame that involved rolling a ball around, that actual, physical ball could make for an ideal controller. Well, Marc Dubois made that game. And that ball!
For “OpenControllers,” Dubois’ degree project at the Swiss school ECAL, the designer created three new game controllers by entombing smartphones inside products from Ikea. It’s a reminder that there are interesting ways to interact with our touchscreen playthings beyond simply touching their screens.
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