Three Kinds of Gamification Employee and Consumer Engagement may be a lot of things but the end result is trying to get your numbers to increase, whether that is visitor frequency, duration or sales the key is to choose one of these and focus on that. It may be tempting to want it all but ...…
How to Make Your Gamified Applications addictive If you want people to actually use your gamified applications they need to be as addictive as any game on the market today-such as Words with Friends, Angry Birds or the many Facebook games out there that people spend hours playing. Gamification basically means applying various techniques that ...…
The Future of Gamification Recently the term “Gamification” has been surrounded by a lot of excitement. For those of you that may not know, Gamification uses rewards, incentives and loyalty services to produce user and employee engagement in the chaotic world of apps, marketing and online life. However, Gartner states in a new study ...…
Gamifying the Student Learning Experience Using badges in the classroom, really? Several games and web tools, like Edmodo, contain the capability of awarding student badges in order to encourage students to engage and thrive independently. However, classrooms are not being totally gamified, just yet, even with the amount of tools that have become recently ...…
Gamification & Ethics Whether you want to see it or not in today’s world everything is being gamified. Our favorite TV shows, our social media, our favorite fast food restaurants, etc. What are the benefits of gamification both for the consumer and the companies that are implementing these techniques? Is it ethical? If you are ...…
Employee Engagement using Gamification Right now Gen Y is entering the workforce at an alarming rate and they have different ideas about the relationship between Employer and Employee. Gen Y was raised on video games as their form of entertainment, so to them the world works much better if it is fast paced and fun. ...…
Consumer Loyalty & Gamification When it comes to today’s consumers we are highly rewarded for our loyalty. For instance, Foursquare rewards you for checking in with badges or mayor status, Mega Jump rewards you with coupons if you reach a new level, do an online survey and you get a gift card, etc. Lately you ...…
5 Cool Examples of Gamification You Need To Know About Syrum-created to appeal to anyone who is into science, this neat little game provides you with the fun experience of creating your own lab, creating new medicines and stopping deadly diseases! Syrum’s original intent on gamifying the pharmaceutical industry came from a way to ...…
Gamification is an exciting and rewarding way to pass time. Not only is entertaining but it has blown up in popularity online as people spend a lot of time gaming. These days, software developers have created numerous games that people can apply to their own lives. While shoot ‘em up games are not exactly ...…
Sebastian Deterding, a UX designer and researcher, has been looking at the underlying concepts of what makes gamification a huge hit online. Many people spend a lot of time gaming online but why? There are worlds of game mechanics that people can use to apply to their own realities. They can associate with people ...…
