How to build great products with game design, not gamification

Four elements of successful game design: - Frequent Feedback Loops- Variable Outcomes - Sense of Control- Connection to a Meta-Game

The Superhuman “product market fit test"went viral a few years ago, but I think this was a distraction from Superhuman’s even more interesting insight – how to incorporate game design into a productivity tool. This is huge and can basically serve as a roadmap on how to incorporate game design into a NoCode/LowCode platform.

many of those examples copied-and-pasted a rather narrow, quantifiable feature set from games onto a non-game environment, instead of starting from the desired emotional outcome of the “game” and designing a specific, bespoke feature set around that goal. In other words, many gamification efforts miss a critical human-centered design perspective — ... See more