How to make corporate training more engaging with gamification
It is just another day at work. You turn on your computer and the calendar shows your first-morning appointment: “Health and safety training. Full day.” You roll your eyes anticipating 8 long hours inside a training room to recap basic workplace safety, emergency procedures, risk…
Increasing User Retention in Gyms thanks to the Octalysis Framework
If you are familiar with Gamification and the Octalysis Framework, you have probably come to a habit of applying it in your daily life to analyse games you play, or apps you use. (If you are NOT familiar with the Octalysis Framework, I will be…
Sounds like Octalysis
Does Octalysis really have a sound of its own? Well, not really, since the 8 Core Drives cover a wide variety of fields by implementing different types of motivators and engagement tools in several application areas, therefore we could rather think of MANY sounds associated…
How to Mimic Octalysis Engagement without Gamification
Because Not Every Situation Requires Gamification Let’s face it, not every experience requires explicit gamification to get results from your employees. If you’re the Head of HR or a human resources designer, you’d rather spend your resources on designing the workplace experiences that truly need gamification….
How to Make a Ride in a Self-Driving Car Truly Engaging
Better Human-Focused Design Experiences in Self-Driving Cars Self-driving and autonomous cars are the future. Maybe you already took a ride in one today. How was it? Did you feel it was made for you? Did the car have human-focused design? Did it leave you feeling…
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…
Never lose a customer again with Octalysis design
Oh no! I got bored. Immediately… I just arrived on your website. I see a headline. It’s okay. I skim the marketing copy. It’s meh. There are a few buttons, but they do not look very appealing. Should I click on one of them? Wow…
The Real Reason Pokemon Go is Failing
It was fun, but… We previously wrote about what Pokemon Go did well, but why did the Pokemon Go hype not last? How did the game lose millions of players, seemingly overnight? Only a few months ago Pokemon Go looked like a huge success: 750…
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…
