Designing Gamified Systems

5What is Gamified System Design?

Chapter Questions

At the end of this chapter, you should be able to answer these questions:

• • What is GS design?
• • What skills are required to be a gamified system (GS) designer?
• • What transferable skills can individuals trained in either game design or user experience (UX) design bring to the practice?
• • What are the steps in the design process?
• • What is Agile, and how is it translated into the Scrum framework?

Introduction

Figure 5.1 GS design combines skills from game design and interaction design.

While gamified systems use concepts or entities from the game world, what really sets them apart are ...