Onboarding

The next area where I think games have a lot to teach product designers is in onboarding . Many games follow the path of slowly revealing the complexity of a system over time, giving the player just enough to do that they're engaged but not overwhelmed. Often this is a continual process that happens across the entire span of the game. Multiple... See more

We used the "Ikea effect" to increase conversion by 82%. Here's why and how. The Ikea effect is a "cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created". We wanted to do 2 things in our... See more

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