Game Thinking: Innovate smarter & drive deep engagement with design techniques from hit games

Friend-of-friend social media sharing.

Now it’s time to articulate and prioritize your assumptions. To generate this list, look through the hypotheses you’ve written down so far in the MVP Canvas. Ask yourself: which assumptions am I least sure about? Which ones would devastate my project if they turned out to be false? Your goal is to write down a prioritized list of your high-risk ass

Not everyone needs to experience this path, but those who want to go deep can have more impact with the more they learn.

Game thinking: an approach to designing engaging products that synthesizes game design, lean/agile methods, design thinking, and systems thinking into a design system.

Empower Experts to Have Real Impact

Inspired by Bartle, I took my experience with designing social games and identified four actions, or verbs, that emerge in online environments: compete, collaborate, explore, and express.

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. Madeleine L’Engle, Author, A Wrinkle in Time

How do you turn a newcomer into a regular? By building a compelling habit. This might involve reading updates, meeting new challenges, or deepening personal connections. Now it’s time to imagine what your core product habit could be.

To identify existing triggers for your product, ask yourself: In which situations is my customer most likely to seek out my product? What’s happening right before—and after—those moments? What’s the context? How does my customer feel right before—and after—using my product? What pain or itch does my product alleviate? Which emotions are driving use