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How To Actually Gamify Your Life (A Game Designer’s Guide)

For years, I’ve been the guy companies call when they want to make their products more engaging. I’ve designed gamification systems for…

Mar 2

How To Actually Gamify Your Life (A Game Designer’s Guide)

Mar 2

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Why Your Child Can’t Stop Using That App (A Game Designer’s Warning)

Something mildly infuriating happened in my house last month.

Mar 31

Why Your Child Can’t Stop Using That App (A Game Designer’s Warning)

Mar 31

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5 Lessons In Gamifying Health

I’ve been designing games and gamified apps that improve health and wellbeing for around a decade. When I first started designing in this…

Jun 3, 2023

5 Lessons In Gamifying Health

Jun 3, 2023

Design Like a Kid: How My Son Taught Me to Create Games in Seconds

My 9-year-old son was bored, and I had a deck of cards (game designer!) so I told him to design 3 Little Pigs Poker.

1d ago

Design Like a Kid: How My Son Taught Me to Create Games in Seconds

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The $500 billion wellness problem that gamification could actually solve

A new report from McKinsey dropped last week that made me sit up and take notice. Not because the wellness industry is booming (we knew…

Jun 6

Side by side graphic: Gen Z 41% of wellness spenders, but 44% struggle with motivation

Jun 6

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How Duolingo’s New Energy System Is Failing Its Users

Last week, I was scrolling through my morning tech news when a headline from The Verge caught my attention: “Duolingo is replacing hearts…

May 27

How Duolingo’s New Energy System Is Failing Its Users

May 27

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I’m A Digital Healthcare Designer. Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis Is A Reminder Of Work Yet To Be Done

The news of former President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis has dominated headlines this week. According to multiple reports, he has…

May 20

I’m A Digital Healthcare Designer. Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis Is A Reminder Of Work Yet To Be Done

May 20

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Duolingo’s small UI switch that changes everything

Energy vs. hearts.

May 15

Duolingo screenshots showing the new flow of energy. The user gains 3 energy by completing a lesson, Duo presents the energy and tells the user “energy is full,” user receives +15 energy for referring a friend

May 15

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Paying the Price: The Ethical Crisis in Freemium Game Design

When Johnny Richardson landed a job as Lead UI Developer on a game featuring the hottest fantasy franchise in the world, he thought he’d…

May 11

Paying the Price: The Ethical Crisis in Freemium Game Design

May 11

Play: The Magic Bullet for Building Trust

(And Why It’s So Dangerous)

May 4

Play: The Magic Bullet for Building Trust

May 4

Sam Liberty

Sam Liberty

Consultant -- Applied Game Design. "The Gamification Professor." Clients include Click Therapeutics, Sidekick Health, and The World Bank.

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