Superhuman Part II - Designing Software to Feel like a Game (with Rahul Vohra) | Acquired Podcast

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.

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