Gamification: Are we really enhancing or just manipulating?

Ethics of design & gamification.

Melinda Jacobs
UX Collective
Published in
7 min readOct 23, 2020

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Yes, we, as a society, are talking about ethics, but, like many things, we need to be talking about it more. This rings especially true in this era of mass data collection and the increasing power of machine learning to process, draw conclusions, and act on this raw data. And, as designers, like it or not, we…

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Geek interested in organization psychology, gamification, & the impact of technology. CPO @ Mindstone & Gamification Expert @ Subatomic 🏳️‍🌈