Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games (1996) (2023 Video Update)

A summary of Will Wright’s talk to Terry Winograd’s User Interface Class at Stanford, written in 1996 by Don Hopkins, before they worked together on The Sims at Maxis. Now including a video and snapshots of the original talk! Introduction: You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.Will Wright, the designer of SimCity, SimEarth, SimAnt, and other p