Best practices in digital design often prioritize seamless user experiences – intuitive interfaces, frictionless onboarding, and uninterrupted progress are the hallmarks of the modern digital interactive. Yet, a frictionless experience becomes a liability when we shift our focus from software utility to actual human cognition. Smooth, guided tutorials guarantee task completion, but they rarely ensure…

A review of current trends in game-based learning suggests that the industry is moving away from the novelty of play and toward the utility of systems and of course, impact! While that might sound like dull or perhaps even grim tidings, this sounds like good news to us. Instead of debating whether games can teach,…

Welcome in everyone, it’s time for another monthly roundup of the latest developments in the grand, society-wide technological experiment we call artificial intelligence. This is always an interesting round up to generate because we write them retrospectively for the preceding month, which gives us a chance to try and synthesize the theme of that month…

Another day, another chance to think about financial literacy! As you may have heard earlier this week, Filament just launched a game with our friends at Intuit called Credit Climber, a narrative educational game designed to young people about how credit scores work. To celebrate this momentous occasion, Filament’s own Dan Norton and Brandon Pittser…