🎮 Gamification in UX Design

Plus: winding down for the holidays

Hi there 👋 I'm Michelle and welcome to Edition 80 of Design Insight. A weekly newsletter for creatives with a focus on design.

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Welcome to the last edition of Design Insight for 2022!!

What a year it has been 🤯

I hope you all take some time to rest and relax before the new year and I'll see you all back here in 2023!

Let's get started.

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📃 2 Articles

😱 The # 1 Thing That Holds Us Back🤓

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Feeling stuck is a result of not making decisions. This is caused by fear. The fear of making a mistake or failing.

2. We're surrounded by so many options we become paralyzed by choice which leads to procrastination.

3. Procrastination isn't laziness. It's your emotional management system trying to avoid anxiety.

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Gamification in UX Design

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Gamification has both good and bad sides to it.

2. On the good side, gamification motivates you to get your 10,000 steps, practice a new language or read more books.

3. On the bad side, if implemented poorly gamification can feel like manipulation which is pretty off-putting.

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🔨 2 Tools/Resources

Design Systems For Figma ➜

• A collection of Design Systems for Figma from all over the globe

CSS mesh gradients generator ➜

• A well-designed and easy-to-use CSS mesh gradient generator

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🎨 1 Design Tip

Design Tip

daryl ginn @darylginn

i read a design tip on twitter telling me to go outside for a walk i came back and my design was still the same waste of time, don't advise

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Last week's most popular links:

1. Drawing to see ➜

2. Spectrum ➜

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Til next week 👋

Michelle

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