Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards

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"Yu-kai is at the cutting edge of the field of behavior design."

Gamification Pioneer Yu-kai Chou takes reader on a journey to learn his twelve years of obsessive research in creating the Octalysis Framework, and how to apply the framework to create engaging and successful experiences in their product, workplace, marketing, and personal lives.Effective gamification is a combination of game design, game dynamics, behavioral economics, motivational psychology, UX/UI (User Experience and User Interface), neurobiology, technology platforms, as well as ROI-driving business implementations. However, few people understand how to merge the two fields into experience designs that reliably increases business metrics and generates a return on investment. This book explores the interplay between these disciplines to capture the core principles that contribute to good gamification design. The new era of Gamification and Human-Focused Design optimizes for motivation and engagement over traditional Function-Focused Design. Readers who absorb the contents of this book will have literally obtained what many companies pay tens of thousands of dollars to acquire. The ultimate aim is to enable the widespread adop