Major domains where gamification creates impact
Core Idea: Gamification techniques can be effectively applied across four major fields: Product, Workplace, Marketing, and Lifestyle, each with distinct objectives and implementation approaches.
Key Elements
Product Gamification
- Purpose: Making products more engaging, fun, and inspirational
- Challenge: Creating products that customers love, continue using, and passionately share
- Focus: User motivation and engagement with the product itself
- Obstacle: User procrastination and the "Status Quo Sloth" phenomenon where users avoid changing habits
Workplace Gamification
- Purpose: Creating environments that inspire and motivate employees
- Challenge: Moving beyond motivation solely based on paychecks (Core Drive 4: Ownership & Possession) and job security (Core Drive 8: Loss & Avoidance)
- Focus: Creating intrinsic motivation for work tasks
- Goal: Developing engaged employees who are motivated beyond extrinsic rewards
Marketing Gamification
- Purpose: Creating holistic marketing campaigns that engage users in fun experiences
- Challenge: Standing out in a crowded advertising landscape
- Focus: Building engagement with product, service, platform, or brand
- Evolution: Moving beyond traditional advertising to create meaningful engagement
Lifestyle Gamification
- Purpose: Applying gamification principles to personal habits and activities
- Subfields:
- Career Gamification
- Health Gamification
- Productivity Gamification
- Education Gamification
- Approach: Using game principles like finding your game, analyzing initial stats, formulating skill trees, connecting with allies, finding the right quests, and beating the game
- Applications: Goal achievement, habit formation, personal development
Additional Connections
- Broader Context: Octalysis Framework (provides the motivational framework for all applications)
- Implementations: Explicit vs Implicit Gamification (approaches that can be used in each field)
- See Also: Core Drive 2 - Development and Accomplishment (often heavily leveraged in Product and Lifestyle Gamification)
References
- Chou, Yu-kai. "Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards."
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