Yukai Chou: Voted Gamification Guru 2017
Yu-kai Chou has been voted as Gamification Guru of the Year 2017 by his Gamification practitioner peers. The memorable vote took place during the Gamification Europe Congress (28 – 29 November, in the United Kingdom). This is the 3rd time that the leading global Gamification…
5 ways to make your employees happy! (not sad)
5 ways to make employees happy Did you know that it is quite easy to build a happy workforce? That it has a lot to do with behavioral science? And that the Octalysis framework can show you the way to employee happiness? Find out below…
How Octalysis boosts a Boring Simulation Game
A boring Game? I recently played a rather tedious Business Strategy Simulation Game in my MBA program https://www.bsg-online.com/. The Game is an attempt to create engagement with a potentially bland topic: business strategy. Although I mildly enjoyed playing the Simulation, I noticed several motivational problems. My…
Find out how Octalysis design supercharges your sales team…
Many of our clients are enthusiastic when they see Octalysis for the first time. One of my clients recently said that the Framework totally transformed the way he saw his business, yes even life itself. I can vouch for these statements myself. Octalysis has completely…
Broken Product? Still successful! The power of Octalysis Epic design
Why Epic Meaning and Calling Matters Core Drive 1: Epic Meaning & Calling can be the Core Drive that keeps your users with you for the long term regardless of flaws in your product. In Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards, Yu-kai explained how Waze…
Octalysis taking lead in the Academic world!
The gamification market is estimated to grow from USD 1.65 Billion in 2015 to USD 11.10 Billion by 2020. This increasing demand is bringing more and more actors to the global market. Since Yu-Kai published the Octalysis Framework in 2008, it has been organically translated…
Three Start-up insights from Octalysis Gamification
When I started up my first company I was, like many other entrepreneurs, constantly bombarded with tips, tricks and “how to’s” on making it in Startup World. Here are three lessons from Octalysis Gamification that helped push my business forward!
FREE lessons learned from Octalysis Design projects
Ever did a project and thought: “Mm, I have seen this challenge before. Maybe with another client? Dang, I wish I had written down the things I learned then, to make my life easier now!”
We do a lot of projects and try to learn our lessons well: after every project we write them down. Now we have a handy database with lessons learned that all our team members can tap into!
Top 5 Lessons to Follow when Designing Octalysis Gamification
There we were. Speechless, and a bit ashamed at the same time. Did we really have to redesign the full Octalysis design set up we did for this client? How was this even possible? So much work, for naught…what a disaster!
Swiping for love…Tinder through the Octalysis Gamification Lens
Global Internet access now connects people everywhere and on all levels, and our search for a suitable partner is no exception. If I google “dating”, I end up with close to 600 million hits. This is one hot sector!
