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When Gamification Overtakes Usefulness

By ⋅ June 24, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Gamification creates user behaviors and train users to act certain ways within a website or app. By creating a points and reward system, like badges on Foursquare and Huffington Post, the creators of a system can get users to do things that normally wouldn’t, but what happens when the gamification overtakes the usefulness of the app?

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