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Play Is the Point: How UX Designers Can Break Into the Gaming Industry

  • 3D Graphics and Interfaces, Augmented Reality, Design, Gaming, Mobile Applications, Mobile Technology, Personal and Professional Development, Requirements and Specifications, Visual Design

There are many ways for game UX designers to break into this multibillion-dollar industry. Using her 14 years of video game UX expertise, designer Pam Nicholls shares how.

Article by Pam Nicholls
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Play Is the Point: How UX Designers Can Break Into the Gaming Industry
  • The video game industry is worth billions of dollars, and more game studios are incorporating UX specialists into the development process.
  • The role of a UX designer in the gaming industry depends on the platform: console, mobile, or PC.
  • UX designers can bring value to the development process by introducing players to the game, promoting inclusive design, and balancing game monetization and UX.
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Play-to-Pay Experience: Fintech Gamification Practices To Level Up Your UX

  • Customer Experience, Design, E-commerce, Gaming, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

Learn how to design a fintech application that makes financial management cool, transactions enjoyful, and money-saving entertaining.

Article by Dana Kachan
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Play-to-Pay Experience: Fintech Gamification Practices To Level Up Your UX
  • This article explores practices for using gamification in financial tech applications.
  • Gamification is the technique of inserting game mechanics into non-game products.
  • Why Gamification Matters:
    • Higher conversion rates
    • Improvement of the user’s financial health
    • User engagement and loyalty
  • How to make fintech app gamification practices work out:
    • Give people the avatars
    • Gamify the onboarding and educational content
    • Design multiple ways for users to get rewards
    • Challenge your app users to meet goals
  • For your product to perform well, you need to understand what results you want to achieve by implementing gamification.
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Gamification in UX Design: Designing Fun Experiences for Serious Situations

  • Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Emotion, Empathy, Gaming, Human factors

Gamification empowers designers to drive human emotions that automatically means a product becomes remarkable and stand-out.Gamification empowers designers to drive human emotions that automatically means a product has more chances to become successful because it gets the user’s reaction. It becomes remarkable and stand-out.

Article by Dana Kachan
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A Few Fits about the Flawed UX of Fitbit Flex

  • Analytics and Tracking, Consumer products, Data visualization, Design, Gaming, Gestures, Healthcare, Input devices, Interaction Design, Interface and Navigation Design, Mobile Applications, Mobile Technology, New and Emerging Technologies, Product design, Product Releases and Redesigns, Reviews, Social Networking, Ubiquitous Computing

A review of Fitbit Flex—the popular piece of wearable technology that tracks your physical activity—finds the useful device hamstrung by a few design flaws.

Article by Jason Ogle
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How to Game Friction for Better UX

  • Consumer products, Content and Copy, Design, Design Tools and Software, Flow and Immersion, Gaming, Information Design and Architecture, Interface and Navigation Design, Motion and Animation, Product design, Visual Design

Friction serves different purposes in game design and experience design, and practitioners in each camp can learn a thing or two from the other.

Article by Clint Schnee
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