https://polaine.com/tags/cooper/ Recent content in cooper on Andy Polaine Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:54:32 +0000 https://polaine.com/2009/02/one-free-playful-interaction/ Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:54:32 +0000 https://polaine.com/2009/02/one-free-playful-interaction/ Great collection of “free interactions” and insightful commentary from Chris Noessel on the Cooper blog. Basically these are little interactive extras, sometimes by-products of a design, sometimes seemingly deliberate (like the iPhone example above). Things that you like to just play with and that have no obvious, functional ‘use’, hence the term “free interaction”. I don’t think we should be surprised that things like these make a difference – play and playfulness is critical to an interaction whether it is physical or virtual.