GIFTED, a social meme-making party game on Netflix

During my time with Demiurge Studios I had the opportunity to be part of a two-man UX/UI crack team contracted with Netflix to work on the yet to be released meme-making party game GIFTED. The game is in the vein of Cards Against Humanity, where players pair humorous captions with GIPHY animations using their smartphones as controllers and then vote for points.

Development at this point was well under way with a playable build on display. They came to us for help with a number of problems to solve for:

• refinement of the user’s experience
• look and feel

It is called a podium or a game show rostrum. While the correct architectural term for a barrier you stand behind is a lectern, the word podium is almost universally used in the television industry and by contestants to describe these game show player stations.