Designs become experiences when people use them.
Design thinker and writer, Christina Wodtke, has blended MDA, a theory of how game design works, with Loops and Arcs, which are ways to organize game play, and applied the results to the design of everyday things. She calls her new recipe CAMP. It stands for context, architecture, mechanics, and poetics. 
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