Throughout her career, ellis bartholomeus has been intrigued with the value of play. She graduated from the Design Academy in 1996 as a product designer and realized that to have audiences own a message they needed to interact with it. since then she has been designing play as a method/tool to amplify self-motivated learning and enable rich social interaction.
Ellis has co-developed more than 75 games and playful interactive products on a wide spectrum of topics. For example a puzzle platform for the elderly to stay cognitively fit by becoming more familiar with technology and the internet.
After years of developing products, ellis wrote Apply Play, a book on the art of play. She gives talks and facilitates workshops on the value and power of play and how to make a change while designing and driving intrinsic motivation.
