Mphil Retrospective

The previous post concluded that the Motivational Design Framework lacked a unifying architecture - that the synthesis of SDT, discrepancy theory, ARCS, flow, and Dreyfus was ad hoc rather than...

The first post laid out what the thesis was - its framework, its psychological sources, the moment it emerged from. The second examined what happened when the framework met reality: the case study...

The previous post laid out what the thesis was and what it drew on. This post examines two things: what happened when the framework met reality - the case study, its methods, and its blind spots -...

In 2011, I completed an MPhil thesis titled An Investigation into the Concept of Motivation within Design (Bisset, 2011). It argued that design practitioners and researchers needed to more clearly...