Bringing delight to everyday apps
Bringing delight to everyday apps
12:20 - 12:45P
Opting for the opposite
12:45 - 1:10P
Serious Play
12:20 - 12:45P
Opting for the opposite
Josh will outline several key decisions he made during the development of Wordle that run contrary to the expected wisdom of technology products and games. Despite that, these decisions had an outsized impact on its success.
Josh Wardle
he/him
Artist & Software Engineer at Gremco Industries, Creator of Wordle
Josh Wardle is an artist and software engineer living in Brooklyn, NY. His works ‘The Button’ (2015), ‘Robin’ (2016) and ‘Place’ (2017), explore human interaction at scale. In 2021 he released the viral word game ‘Wordle’, which he sold to the New York Times in 2022.
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