Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra) | Acquired Podcast
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Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra) | Acquired Podcast
Game design is not gamification. It is not simply taking your product and adding points, levels, trophies, and badges. Gamification was a big deal 10 years ago, but it didn’t work. And to understand why, we have to understand human motivation.
Rahul Vohra • How to build great products with game design, not gamification
deriving fun and engaging elements found typically in games and thoughtfully applying them to real-world or productive activities.
Yu-kai Chou • Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards
Superhuman is productivity software, but I'm really a gamer at heart — and I've built a framework for applying game design to business software.
Rahul Vohra • How to build great products with game design, not gamification
Our desires, motivations and behaviors are constantly being shaped by incentives and systems we aren’t even aware of. So much genius and money has gone into a metaphor that assumes all humans desire is status and likes and influence and convenience and efficiency.
Yes, humans want all those things. But we also want to be inspired. To be delighted. T... See more
Yes, humans want all those things. But we also want to be inspired. To be delighted. T... See more