Skilful Minds

JUNE 27, 2011

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.

Social 96

Social Games Collaboration Design 96

Skilful Minds

MAY 21, 2011

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.

Games 57

Games Social Design Player 57

Skilful Minds

JUNE 24, 2013

Change Management Collaboration Customer Experience Ethnography Experience Design Gameful Design Learning Experience User Experience Game mechanics Gamification Gamification At Work interaction design Interaction Design Foundation SAP Community Network'

Gamification 73

Gamification SAP Design Network 73

Skilful Minds

JULY 12, 2010

Digital ethnography is an increasingly feasible research technique as smartphones decrease in cost and more people carry them around.

Analysis 60

Analysis Video Design Journal 60

Skilful Minds

APRIL 25, 2011

Much of it misses the simple point that it is the experience with it, the playfulness of it, that makes a game. Not the scoring system, or the rewards, or anything else can make up for a game that participants (customers or employees) don't experience as play.

Gamification 48

Gamification Customer Service Score Games 48