Agentic Commerce: Designing for Buyers Who Aren’t Human
74% of shoppers would trust an AI agent over their best friend to buy for them. Only 12%…
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Articles on Gamification Analysis — from Yu-kai Chou, creator of the Octalysis Framework.
Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model: An S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Most transformations don’t die in a dramatic showdown. They dissolve quietly, somewhere between the kickoff town hall and…
Tuckman’s Stages: An S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Forming, storming, norming, performing: the creator of the Octalysis Framework rebuilds Tuckman's stages into a team-design playbook you…
Belbin Team Roles: The S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Through the 1970s, a researcher at a British management college ran the same experiment on repeat: assemble a…
Nielsen’s 10 Usability Heuristics: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Jakob Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics, the 1994 factor analysis behind them, the evaluator effect the design world keeps…
AI in Education Motivation: What Should Count as Learning
AI in education motivation collapsed when essays stopped proving learning. Why detection fails, and the four assessment surfaces…
Fogg × Octalysis: The 8 Motivations Behind B=MAP’s One
BJ Fogg's B=MAP compressed motivation into a single scalar. Octalysis expands it into 8 Core Drives, each with…
Lean Startup: An S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Short answer: The Lean Startup is a method for building products under high uncertainty by testing your assumptions…
StoryBrand: An S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
A stranger lands on your homepage. You have, at best, five seconds before they decide whether you are…