Gamification seems to have been the big thing for a while. Maybe we have heard too much of it. Some would say we have been over sold on gamification, making it the wonder child that will make your websites work and attract and keep customers.
Gamification by Design – by Gabe Zichermann and Chris Cunningham is the recommended discussion seed book for UXPerth this month (April 2012). I don’t often review the books for UXPerth, unless they are amazingly outstanding or something a lot worse.
A part of Lean is Hoshin Kanri (HK). It is a form of policy development or strategic planning.
Like any good strategic planning process it deals with the mapping out of how the business can get to the desired outcome.
Translating the long term vision into manageable objectives and actions.
Hoshin Kanri is based around the idea that we are all domain experts within your own fields, and hence have something to contribute no matter where we stand in the organisation.
For it to work effectivity, senior and middle level management must be prepared to delegate some authority and trust.
I have been interested in Lean for a while, if nothing else than to explore if any of the techniques could be stolen for use with UX and service design. I’m only starting out on this journey about Lean, learning mainly from the local Perth Lean Meetup group.
This is the first, of hopefully a series, of short articles on what I learn from the Lean meetup.
So I expect that I’m bound to get some aspects of Lean wrong. That’s okay I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m too far off track.
Times have just got to change. I’m a little sick of living in a world that is regionalise into sales and licencing zones for no real reason besides to restrict sales due to some arcane money grubbing corporate policy.
What makes matters worse is people building experiences that highlight this and rub our face in it time and time again!
I regularly buy music online from various places, I tend to favour non DRM music, or if I can buy directly from the artist which is even better – I don’t like iTunes much at all.
Gary Barber
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