The Metaphor Card Game: A Brainstorming Process Toward Tangible Interaction Design

Recent years a wealth of research studies has appeared which tackles the issue of the role of game play in design process. In this paper we present a metaphor card game in the design process as a brainstorming framework and discuss the experiments using it. We report our findings from four sessions in which we have used the method and argue that the use of metaphor card game facilitates communication between participants and improves idea generation by bringing various sources of inspiration into the design process.