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Robin-Yann Storm

@rystorm.com

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Product & UX Designer for Tools, Freelance Consultant @ https://rystorm.com/ Previously Apple, Guerrilla, IO-Interactive, and more. Organizes the Tool Design & OpenUSD Roundtables at GDC. Gets really excited about workflows.

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · Aug 31

New video! Old news, new package: AI, Procedural Generation, UGC, in-game trading, Blockchain, and the Metaverse

Why are game developers so adverse to these technologies? The best way to find out is by asking folks who have lived through the history of game development.

youtu.be/CeZ_rcDQg6Q

Old news, new package: AI, Procedural Generation, UGC, ingame trading, Blockchain, and the Metaverse

YouTube video by Robin-Yann Storm

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 43m

Relatable at a hospital or fire department:
“It’s so quiet today”

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 3h

This is frighteningly easy to do

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 3h

It’s agile, but different

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 3h

CEO’s son has ideas
bsky.app/profile/impa...

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 3h

Don't need user research

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 10h

That's so smart!! Amazing!

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 10h

That looks gorgeous! The depth is so neat

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 11h

It sucks

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 22h

15 loads in 2 minutes, CLEAR

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 23h

At some point folks are going to walk away, saying it disappoints them. I think google has to look at itself and ask if it's better off this way.

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d

Sure, it’s your right and your ability.

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d

Searching for legitimate info on any sequel developments, and the first thing you get served is an AI generated fake trailer, along with a button asking if you have watched the non-existent movie.

Completely unreliable, Google is cooked

The Google search page for Constantine 2, showing an AI trailer front and center

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d

Anyway, Constantine is still a great movie. I wonder if we’ll ever get a sequel

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 1d

Imo a doctor shouldn’t tell a grieving person that their loved one is “As dead as dead can be” but maybe that’s just me. I just can’t believe they’d say that. You don’t always have to be the optimistic one, but even if you have the ability to say that, it just creates enemies.

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 2d

“Automation can simplify things dramatically, but we must be cautious in its application to avoid the perils of inap-propriate levels of automation.”

This book is from 2010 btw

technology to other domains. Of course it is far easier to say this than to do because each new domain has both a lot in common with others and a lot that is special and unique to itself. So designers face a difficult challenge. They must still deliver people the choices they want and need, reduce the complexity of se-curity, yet maintain conceptual simplicity and safety from error, equipment failures, and deliberate attacks by thieves, terrorists, and pranksters. Automation can simplify things dramatically, but we must be cautious in its application to avoid the perils of inap-
propriate levels of automation.
The designer's role is difficult, with many challenges. In addition to all the functional, aesthetic, manufacturing, sustainabil-ity, and financial issues associated with the design of products, and the cultural, training, and motivational issues associated with services, the designer has to ensure that the end result communicates properly to those who must use it. This is the role of th

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 2d

“The important point for the treatment of complexity is that automation is perhaps the most effective simplifying strategy of all, as long as the function is completely automated by a system that is robust and reliable.”

-From ‘Living with Complexity’ by Don Norman

it would have been had there been no automation at all. Simi-larly, partial automation can be more problematic than either full automation or no automation, because switching between the automated and nonautomated states can add confusion and com-plication. I discuss these issues at length in my book The Design of Future Things. The important point for the treatment of complexity is that automation is perhaps the most effective simplifying strategy of all, as long as the function is completely automated by a system that is robust and reliable.
Beneficial Manipulation: Forcing Functions
"Forcing functions" are constraints intended to prevent unwanted actions. Forcing functions simplify tasks because no understanding is required: the function forces the intended behavior. It is only if one wants to perform the prohibited action that some un-

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 3d

2. A talk: Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game.

Hardly anyone reads Confluence or wikis, and information gets lost internally all over. In what level was that NPC, how far can a player jump, what was that animation called?
We can solve it, with gyms, zoos, and museums!

Everyone always mentions that people do not read documentation. This is also the case for us as game developers. So what can we do about that? First, it is important not to force everyone to read pages and pages of documentation. Usually, only programmers and other technical folks go through all the effort of reading up on functionality. So what about artists, and designers? Thankfully, solutions already exist: Gyms, Zoos, and Museums. Let’s look at these examples, see how they work, how they can be built, and how they improve the development of your games.

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 3d

I will be speaking at GIC in Poznan, 2 weeks from now! There will be two sessions hosted by me:

1. The Tool Design Roundtable, in which we will discuss about what kind of workflows fit your users, how to gather feedback, what UI practices work best, and how to design a good pipeline.

We will discuss and share experiences on Tool UX Design & Production. This is a fairly new topic that every studio has to deal with, but is talked about relatively little. These roundtables will give you the time and place to discuss how the handle feature requests, UX & UI improvements, and tool production for each of our own internal tool needs. Example questions are: 1. What communication channels do you use to inform users about new tool features? 2. How to iterate, and avoid the vocal minority? 3. How do you slow down, so you aren't just a huge feature train for your tools all the time?

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 2d

So gruntled and whelmed, thank you

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 2d

I am vincible!

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 2d

Damn that looks good

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 2d

Yeah if you know the bait, it's no longer bait

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 2d

Hell yeah, see you there!

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 2d

Stock photo yes, but I don't think folks know these are stock photos of all the same guy every time

Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 3d

Let's! I am arriving the 22nd! Flying out again early morning 27th