Amin Ebrahimi

Insights

Thinking aloud on systems design, gamification, and interactive strategy.

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    Workshop

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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…

  • Persian Game Design Heritage and Modern UX

    Design History

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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…

  • Gamification Beyond Points and Badges

    Gamification

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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…

  • A Primer on Feedback Loops in Product Design

    Systems Thinking

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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…