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Articles and notes on systems design, gamification, and interactive culture.
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What Happens in a Systems Mapping Workshop
Last month I facilitated a two-day systems mapping session with a twelve-person product team at a Tehran-based logistics startup. Here’s what the process actually looks like — and why it consistently surfaces…
Workshop
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Persian Game Design Heritage and Modern UX
The history of game design in the Persian-speaking world stretches back more than a millennium — and its principles resonate with surprising directness in contemporary interaction design. This is a brief meditation…
Design History
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Gamification Beyond Points and Badges
Points, badges, and leaderboards have become the default toolkit of gamification — and their ubiquity is precisely the problem. When every app showers users with meaningless rewards, the mechanics lose their power…
Gamification
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A Primer on Feedback Loops in Product Design
Every product is a living system of cause and effect. Understanding how feedback loops amplify or dampen user behavior is the first step toward designing experiences that evolve gracefully rather than spiraling…
Systems Thinking
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