The dangers of ‘Engagement’ as an untethered KPI

Set your design goals for quality, not quantity.

Melinda Jacobs
UX Collective
Published in
6 min readAug 26, 2022

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I hear one word more than any others in my day-to-day gamification work: engagement. It usually pops up when I ask the question:

“So, why are you interested in using gamification in your product?”

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