The Play Pyramid: A Play Classification and Brainstorming Tool for Toy Design
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Toy designers may benefit from a universal classification system to communicate and brainstorm new toy concepts. Being able to classify types of play may also help a designer in determining whether a potential toy product has play value. We have defined four categories of play (Construction, Fantasy, Sensory, Challenge) loosely based on Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development. These four categories can be viewed as the vertices of a tetrahedron which we call the Play Pyramid. The Play Pyramid can be used to plot new ideas for toys to relate them to current toys with similar play value. This is helpful in understanding play affordances perceived by different target users. The Play Pyramid can also be used in brainstorming; by taking a toy idea and moving it around inside the Pyramid, the concept can take on new and unforeseen types of play.
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