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Actionable Gamification

By : Yu-kai Chou
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Actionable Gamification

By: Yu-kai Chou

Overview of this book

Effective gamification is a combination of game design, game dynamics, user experience, and ROI-driving business implementations. This book explores the interplay between these disciplines and captures the core principles that contribute to a good gamification design. The book starts with an overview of the Octalysis Framework and the 8 Core Drives that can be used to build strategies around the various systems that make games engaging. As the book progresses, each chapter delves deep into a Core Drive, explaining its design and how it should be used. Finally, to apply all the concepts and techniques that you learn throughout, the book contains a brief showcase of using the Octalysis Framework to design a project experience from scratch. After reading this book, you’ll have the knowledge and skills to enable the widespread adoption of good gamification and human-focused design in all types of industries.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Introduction
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Chapter 18: The Journey Goes On
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Notes

Google’s Curious Second Button

Another interesting example that utilizes suspense is Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky Button.” Generally, searches on Google.com lead users to a results page that Google curates to best fit what they deem as most relevant to the keywords entered - alongside some ads that pay Google very well. The user will usually look through the top 3 to 10 search results and find the one that seems to be the most appropriate.

However, on the front page there’s a button that was originally designed to directly bypass all of that. It’s called the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button which took users directly to the website of the top search result.

This is very interesting because Google guards its front page design very, very carefully. As told by The Google Story192, Google decided as a young company that they did not want to clutter their front page like Yahoo.com. They were adamant about...