This UX report looks at how the toolset D&D Beyond helps make D&D easier by borrowing traits from video game UI, following the trend of “digitizing” board games.

My doctoral dissertation, I used figurations and focus groups to study how digital media platforms and content impacted how users played Dungeons and Dragons. This is also where I first referenced “alpha objects” within figurations and my Engagement-Consumption-Impacts Model.

A manuscript in the editing stages, this article looks at how my research demonstrates new ways for researchers to utilize figurations as a theory, as well as the introduction of the “alpha media object.”