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Design and “Gamification At Work”

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The Interaction Design Foundation is publishing Gamification At Work by Jankaki Kumar and Mario Herger for the public tomorrow. I just finished reading the book and taking notes thinking I might review it.

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Social Flow and Collaboration in Gameful Design

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Social Flow in Gameful Design made the point that social flow contrasts to Csikszentmihalyi's original concept of individual or solitary flow, in which a person's engagement in actions is optimal, where they lose a sense of time and awareness of self in an intrisincally rewarding feeling.

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Social Flow in Gameful Design

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Don't Gamify Wild Bill discussed the importance of designing for voluntary play in serious games. Play is the baseline requirement for any game designed to provide useful indicators for gauging individual and organizational successes over time.

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Ethnography, Globalization, and Experience Design

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One of the most visited posts on this blog is titled, Empathic Research Methods and Design Strategy. In it I add to points made by Adam Silver, a Strategist at Frog Design, noting that globalization and digitalization in the 1990s resulted in product and service interfaces with more culturally diverse and geographically distributed customers.

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Social Business Design: Insights from HP’s WaterCooler

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Needless to say, the truth about social media's implications for business design lies somewhere in the middle. Experience Design social business design social media socialCRM. Experience Design social business design social media socialCRM. Customer Experience Enterprise 2.0 Customer Experience Enterprise 2.0

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A Learnability and Experience Design Update

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One of my earlier posts discussed the learnability of a service as a key challenge for experience design. Today I ran across this early video from Don Norman on learnability and product design. I thought I would share it.

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Using Social Network Analysis in Social Business Design

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My previous post discussed the Open/Closed culture fallacy in social business design. I contended that leaders of large corporations are typically unable to answer the key strategic questions posed by David Armano in an important post recently.