Gamification means tricking the brain in doing things by making them more fun and rewarding. This is a huge deal in UX design, as you can use it to get people to do specific things. For us, this means: sign up, send emails, join a protest, organise an event, share materials, be active in the discord, etc.
How can we use gamification
- Keep track of things people do
- Attribute a score to certain actions (e.g. attend an event, sign a petition)
- Give achievements for completing goals
- Share a (optionally public) profile of how people contribute, their score, achievements.
- We have a list of (regularly updated) actions, like "reply to this post"
Reasons why we might not want to do this
- Extrinsic motivations can kill intrincic motivations. I'm not sure how this balances for this type of activism
- Cumbersome to set up, takes time and skill, could be more useful for something else.
How to realize this
This should probably be part of the pauseai.info website. We need some back-end for persisting and collecting profiles + events, calulating scores and achievements.
Examples
How you can help
- Share inspiring examples
- Come up with ideas
- Help out with designing or building this