Get Your Head Into The Games
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What's your favorite game? Is it a classic like charades, Monopoly or rummy? Or do you prefer mobile games like Candy Crush or Clash of Clans? Perhaps you're a proper ‘gamer' and spend large stretches of your free time playing Call of Duty, Fortnite or Grand Theft Auto??
Whatever your favorite is, there's no denying that?games are part of human nature. It's why gamification has become so popular, keeping users engaged while learning or working.?
?So this week we’re celebrating the vast world of games!
?Let's start with a brief history lesson.
What Is Gamification?
Gamification is a technique which designers use to insert gameplay elements in non-gaming settings, so they enhance user engagement with a product or service.?
By weaving suitably fun features such as leaderboards and badges into an existing system, designers tap users’ intrinsic motivations, so they enjoy using it more.
Check out this article to learn more.
Characters For Gamification
Gamification, like other aspects of UX design, requires research. Richard Bartle, professor and game researcher, created the Bartle Test of Psychology to organize how people play games into four simple categories: the Achiever, the Explorer, the Socializer, and the Killer.
Find out more about Bartle's player types in this article.?
Today: Games UX Master Class
Join us?today, 17 November at 16:00 UTC?for another Games UX Master Class. This time Om Tandon will give us insight in the process and pipeline of games UX. If you missed the first Master Class,?you can watch it here .?
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2 年Probably the best Desktop UX that I ever had to learn before term UX was introduced to wide public