What can software product designers learn from game designers?
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What can software product designers learn from game designers?
“You have to teach the player in a natural way, that they need to avoid them by jumping over them,” says the game’s designer, the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto.
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
Developing a product that people enjoy using takes more than a top-down behavioral map, diagnosis, and intervention — it takes creativity, and it takes the team’s development and design expertise.
Stephen Wendel • Designing for Behavior Change: Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics
Game design is not gamification. It is not simply taking your product and adding points, levels, trophies, and badges. Gamification was a big deal 10 years ago, but it didn’t work. And to understand why, we have to understand human motivation.
Rahul Vohra • How to build great products with game design, not gamification
The most challenging products must EXPLAIN how something should be done (think Adobe Photoshop, where users must be find training on YouTube or elsewhere to engage — even initially—with the product). Having to explain your product is the least effective way to engage new users (and explains why products like Photoshop struggle to attract non-Pros).... See more