Gamification for Product Excellence: Make your product stand out with higher user engagement, retention

Streamline your product management process with gamification strategies, frameworks, and best practices from experts to create remarkable products

Key Features
Design gamification frameworks that captivate users and deliver a compelling experience
Build a successful gamification strategy to go from concept to prototype to production with ease
Gamify product management processes using game techniques to effectively lead teams and stakeholders
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Book Description
Are you trying to build a product that your audience loves to use? Game mechanics and psychology have been used for decades to increase engagement, convert users to buyers, and increase audience retention. Learning when and where to implement these tools can take your product from the middle of the pack to a must-have!

This book begins by helping you get a clear understanding of gamification, its key concepts, and how product managers can leverage it to drive user engagement in non-game scenarios. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll learn different gamification frameworks, mechanics, and elements with structured ways to implement them while designing a successful gamification strategy tailored to a business case. You'll get a chance to implement and test the designed strategy prototype with the users for feedback. You’ll also discover how to sell your strategy to stakeholders to get full buy-in from the top down, along with how to gamify your product development process to drive innovation, engagement, and motivation.

By the end of this book, you'll be primed to harness the power of gamification, and will have benefited from proven case studies, best practices, and tips, ensuring you are well-equipped to apply gamification principles to your work as a product development professional.

What you will learn
Explore gamification and learn how to engage your user with it
Gain insights into the functionality and implementation of different gamification frameworks
Master specific game elements and mechanics that can be used to improve user experiences
Design a successful gamification strategy to test your hypothesis and develop a business case
Implement and test the prototype you’ve created with users for feedback
Say the right words to sell your gamification strategy to stakeholders
Use design thinking exercises and game elements to improve the product management process
Who this book is for
If you are a product manager, product leader, or product designer weaving gamified experiences and crafting exceptional digital products from conception to reality, then this book is the absolute right pick for you. The topics covered will enable you to level up your products and unleash their full potential through gamification. All the gamification strategies and frameworks discussed in this book can be practically applied across different domains with ease.

Table of Contents
Gamification Basics
Gamification for Product Managers
Gamification Frameworks and Experts
Understanding Your User
Game Mechanics and Psychology
Designing a Gamification Strategy
Implementing Your Gamification
Challenges and Limitations in Gamification
Selling Your Gamification Strategy
Gamify Your Product Development Process
Case Studies and Best Practices
The Future of Gamification