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Actionable Gamification
- Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards
- Narrated by: Scott R. Smith
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The new era of gamification and human-focused design optimizes for motivation and engagement over traditional function-focused design. Within the industry, studies on game mechanics and behavioral psychology have become proliferate. However, few people understand how to merge the two fields into experience designs that reliably increases business metrics and generates a return on investment. Gamification pioneer Yu-kai Chou takes the listener on a journey to learn his 12 years of obsessive research in creating the Octalysis Framework, and how to apply the framework to create engaging and successful experiences in their product, workplace, marketing, and personal lives.
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- Ben Katz
- 2019-05-19
Amazing, unique insights into human focused design
highly recommend reading this if you are trying to create a motivating product or environment.
3 people found this helpful
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- Matthew
- 2021-02-04
Interesting and useful framework.
The book is of value to product designers and anyone interested in practical applications of behavioral science. Could have been shorter, and I could have done without all the author's personal stories. On the whole if you are interested in the subject matter in some practical sense then it's worth a listen through.
1 person found this helpful
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- Kendrick
- 2022-10-29
Lots of blather little content
It goes on and on and never seems to get to the point or the meat of the issue. Very few practical examples and those are too limited in range and scope.
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- David Neal Park
- 2020-07-27
This is a must read.
This book is transcendently relevant! If you’re a human, give it a read. You’ll be glad you did. :D
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-10-31
Insightful and well-honed
Very descriptive. I could relate easily to the author life experiences. A bit long though.
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- Abel
- 2017-09-07
Just a bunch of rules and no source references
If you wanna learn how Gamification works and how to apply it, read Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal. This book has tried to summarize the theory while implying the author came up with it by himself while giving no one the proper credit. This is not even a simple breakdown, it's 8 core areas, with a bunch of numerical rules inside each. Hardly practical.
Most of it is self advertising. I returned the book after listening to half of it. There are cool points but these are better explained in other literature.
If you want to take a shortcut or just be able to add this topic to your LinkedIn, this book is for you. Just don't go thinking you can apply it to a product.
19 people found this helpful
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- Arel Avellino
- 2017-07-14
Best book on gamification
So many books on this subject are fluffy, solely spending time on adding badges and leaderboards to everything which in my personal experience is only sometimes effective in motivating people. But Yu-Kai unpacks the whole science behind human motivation and how to really use gamification in anything. Very engaging book and will definitely re-read and continue to add notes.
7 people found this helpful
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- Mark
- 2018-04-06
Great book, but the Author...
I really love the content of the book, but have struggled to get through it because of all the little side comments that make the author seem very arrogant. He could have left out about a page worth of content in the book that makes up all of these comments and I would likely be at a 4 or 5 star rating. It makes the book feel unrelatable even though the actual content is extremely relatable.
If you can push through the small remarks, you will be rewarded with a tremendous amount of knowledge on what motivates people and how gamification can be used to influence these motivations.
6 people found this helpful
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- sharon d o'connor
- 2017-06-30
Not good as an audible book
There are lots of good ideas that I will follow up on. The audible book is too hard to follow. Lots of references to things I need to recall and then I lose track and have to rewind. The gamification of the book, i.e. Stop now and post something to social media, is annoying and not conducive to the Audible experience. I listen to books while I drive, I can't do that. I returned this by chapter 8.
5 people found this helpful
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- Ian Derrington
- 2018-12-23
good concepts made but too much self marketing
Good book with reasonable concepts. It is annoying that he is always trying to get you to advertise for him with Twitter and sell his framework consulting capacity. At the end he even compares himself with Jesus as a prophet of sorts... So, other than trying not to throw up at his massive ego (or low self esteem?) the framework he presents seems to be pretty useful. Certainly worth reading.
2 people found this helpful
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- Zeke
- 2021-03-15
Essential for people building engaging products.
A marvelous framework to classify your ideas and help you define a product vision that is aligned with your user behavior.
1 person found this helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-03-18
very long but good book!
I love the framework. I love the methodology. the book is so long but good.
1 person found this helpful
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- Maarten
- 2017-08-25
A commercial for a framework called octalysis
It is a nice description of quite a number of gaming rules and product-design rules. All the rules are clearly organized in categories, which is the base of the author's framework. Some of them are quite interesting, some are very obvious. The book goes beyond points & badges and is thankfully not fond of adding those to your product without giving it a better thought.
The thing that really put me off was the author being quite self indulgent. Even him mentioning his framework being not superior to others is done in a way that makes it sound like he feels it clearly is superior. The further you get into the book, the more annoying this became for me. It's a commercial for his framework.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2017-06-24
I bought this for a friend.
I finished it and will go back for seconds. I got the Kindle version too.
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- david
- 2023-05-27
Founders guide to SaaS design
This books helps you think beyond the two dimensional mindset of your own mind. If you are a founder or are Involved redesigning your existing, it’s worth learning these concepts to be empathetic to your users motivations. Worth a read, a reread and then again…