Octalysis Certificate Achiever: Ashley Nielsen
What does it take to earn an Octalysis Certificate? Ashley Nielsen’s submission proves that real understanding, not surface-level knowledge, is the standard. After a single round of feedback, she delivered an analysis of the Epic! children’s reading app that shows exactly why the Octalysis Certification process works.
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About the Creator of the Octalysis Framework
Yu-kai Chou created the Octalysis Framework after studying gamification since 2003 — years before the term entered mainstream vocabulary. As a Human-Systems Architect & Behavioral Designer, his framework has been applied by LEGO, Microsoft, Porsche, Coca-Cola, Salesforce, and MrBeast, impacting over 1.5 Billion Users.
Chou has taught the Octalysis methodology at Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Tesla, Google, BCG, and IDEO.
His work has been cited by Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Wired, US Department of Energy, NIST, NSF, NCBI, US Department of Education, ClinicalTrials.gov, and 3,700+ more academic publications. Explore his books here.
Ashley Nielsen’s Octalysis Certificate Submission
One of the most rewarding things about the Octalysis Certification process is seeing people learn and progress with feedback. Ashley is a good example of someone who learned a lot in little time.
For her Octalysis Certificate submission, Ashley tackled the Epic! children’s reading app. After only one round of feedback, she delivered a quality submission. Her Analysis of the Current Experience is especially worth taking a look at.
About the Epic! Reading App
Epic! is a digital reading platform designed for children age 12 and under. It encourages kids to read more books through a curated library and allows teachers to track the reading activity of their students.
Ashley also has her own Learning Architecture Consulting company. With 20+ years of experience in Education Design, Learning Architecture helps educators and institutions design educational processes that make their vision a reality through customized designs for each system of education.
Ashley’s Experience
Congratulations, Ashley! Your Octalysis Certificate is well deserved.
“Thank you so much for your thoughtful feedback. I am slowly making my way through it and making improvements. This process is certainly clarifying many of the concepts. So glad I did it!”
Ashley Nielsen
Interested in earning your own Octalysis Certificate? The certification process deepens your understanding of the Octalysis Framework through hands-on analysis and expert feedback, not passive learning.
Related Reading
- The Octalysis Framework for Gamification & Behavioral Design
- Hall of Fame — All Octalysis Certificate Achievers
- What is Gamification?
- Human-Focused Design
- The Octalysis Gamification Certificate
- Books by Yu-kai Chou