When I started out in gamification, I wanted to make my designs inclusive by design. One of the main drivers behind this was that what I had seen up until then didn’t quite motivate me as a woman when gamification presented in a hyper-competitive manner. I also felt that most gamification designers at the time…
Comparing performance, looks, results, comments, etc. is something we have all done or experienced at some point in life. It may have been in school, where when school report or results came out, you grouped together with friends to compare notes. It may have been your family comparing you to siblings or nieces and nephews….
Everyone can perform when a deadline in work is looming. For some reason, the time challenge of a production milestone is a major motivator for work productivity and performance. The question also is, is it our best work? It doesn’t mean other days people are outright lazy, but the same high priority motivation isn’t there….
In every walk of life, there are recipes for success. From a tried and tested process to a number of steps, repeated over and over to hit the target. Understanding the process is the first thing and then implementing it consistently and finetuning it until it works for you. In gamification, learning design and game…
At a recent event, a speaker was making claims about how what they were building was totally new to the market and nobody else had done it. They also went on to say that they had been specifically selected to build this new thing for a major software house. As a listener to the talk…