Read Yu-kai Chou's Actionable Gamification: the 8 Core Drives behind every product people come back to. Used by LEGO, Microsoft, Porsche, and MrBeast.
Effective Altruism is self-recommending
Recently we bought my 3-year-old daughter a "behavior chart," in which she can earn stickers for achievements like not throwing tantrums, eating fruits and vegetables, and going to sleep on time. We successfully impressed on her that a major goal each day was to earn as many stickers as possible.
A New Vision for Consumer Hardware | Framework
Erlend Sogge Heggen (@erlend.sh)
1. solitude: single-player game loop 2. bottomlessness: infinite scroll 3. speed: instant delivery/gratification 4. teasing: generally satisfactory, never perfect; “maybe the next one is exactly what I want” ↘️ quoting NPR (@npr.org): Taken together, these four features can create a trancelike state that can keep us stuck on social media apps or video games for hours. Children are particularly vulnerable. n.pr/4mH6i6s
Awesome RSI: A curated research map of Recursive Self-Improvement
A curated research map of Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI): models, agents, harnesses, embodied systems, automated AI R&D, benchmarks, and safety.
Allume — for focused thinking App - App Store
Download Allume — for focused thinking by Milestone Made, LLC on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like Allume — for…
Building games that can be understood at a glance
Building games that can be understood at a glance - Zach Gage, GDC 2018
Abdelrahman's playground
designer building thoughtful little apps and interactions. reverie, nomi, and a metal shader playground.
To The Core
To The Core is an incremental game about extracting and using resources from planets to buy upgrades.
Threat Modeling with LEGO SERIOUS PLAY: Building your Digital Identity threat
W3C explored how Threat Modeling with LEGO SERIOUS PLAY can help uncover security, privacy, and human-rights threats in digital identity systems. Participants built threats from real-world harms, mapped them into shared landscapes, and discovered they are connected.
Play for On-device AI (beta) | Other Play guides | Android Developers
Play for On-device AI enables developers to efficiently distribute custom machine learning models via Android App Bundles and Google Play, offering various delivery modes and device targeting capabilities to optimize deployment on Android devices.
Integrating Narrative into Game Design: A Portal Post-Mortem
» The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 3: The Sims The Digital Antiquarian
I don’t think people realize how much tactical and strategic forethought goes into their daily lives. There’s a whole subconscious time-efficiency layer in our lives. In essence, real-time strategy is our lives.
I am often wrong
[I shared this note with my team earlier this week, and am posting it here as well. I hope it is interesting or helpful for others working on building product in the age of AI.]
Environments Hub: A Community Hub To Scale RL To Open AGI
RL environments are the playgrounds where agents learn. Until now, they’ve been fragmented, closed, and hard to share. We are launching the Environments Hub to change that: an open, community-powered platform that gives environments a true home.Environments define the world, rules and feedback loop of state, action and reward. From games to coding tasks to dialogue, they’re the contexts where AI learns, without them, RL is just an algorithm with nothing to act on.
The New Science of Designing for Humans (SSIR)
The rise of behavioral science and impact evaluation has created a new way for engineering programs and human interactions. <meta property=
OpenMinis/AwesomeMinis
😎 A curated collection of real-world Minis use cases, workflows, and creative scenarios — contributed by the community