When chemical waste from a factory seeps into the ground of a nearby cemetery, it’s residents wake up and they are hungry. “They Will Eat You” is a frightening HTML5 Experiment developed by B-Reel.
Get more motivation through gameplay with Fitbit
November 22, 2012
With the current trend for Gamification and Gamified systems in today’s digital landscape, there’s now plenty of interesting examples to look to for both inspiration and to measure effectiveness.
Companies utilising these positive, motivational shaping techniques are aiming to generate greater levels of engagement with their customers through the ‘simple’ use of fun.
But what’s interesting about these emerging systems is how complicated ‘simple’ fun actually is to get off the ground. A fine line must be trod between the wishes of the customer to have a sense of autonomy and self determination, and the needs of the company to develop a system that has a commercially beneficial outcome.
It turns out that fun can be engineered, a process for gameplay can be designed, and real benefits can be achieved by both customer and company.
By baking in both extrinsic and intrinsic motivational drivers, and by structuring a system around key game dynamics, mechanics and components, highly effective gamified systems can be developed that will keep customers healthily hooked on a brand experience, as well as helping companies develop greater customer engagement and brand share.
Perhaps one of the more obvious places to find gamification is in the health and fitness sector. A sector where classically us ‘players’ are, in the main, de-motivated and require a sizeable shove to change our behaviour.
Ever since Nike cracked it with Nike+, the sector has seen a healthy nod towards the principals of gamification, and there is today several dedicated gamified systems wholly focused on bringing about positive change through motivational gameplay.
A new player in the market and rival to Nike+ is Fitbit.
Fitbit goes beyond simple running (Nike+), and looks to affect the ‘player’s’ total body. With sections including Get Fit, Eat Better, Weight Management and Sleep Better, Fifbit is using several tried and tested techniques, such as goal setting, points and badges, to drive behaviour change, generate engagement and sell product.
The system, visually designed by Odopod, looks fresh, interesting and healthily addictive. The benefits of a set of physical products supported by this digital ecosystem, as well as the ‘total body’ emphasis certainly helps the system to stand out (from the big tick), and shapes it up as a premier player in the gamification league.
Check it out, does it make you feel a little more motivated?
IKEA Textile Scholarship
November 6, 2012
IKEA Textile Scholarship aims to inspire anybody and everybody to apply for a scholarship and create change in their life/home with the various textiles IKEA has to offer.
The site by SMFB and Kokokaka crafts a highly visual/tactile interface where it’s easy to explore and browse through the different scholarships in a intuitive and playful way. To trigger the applicants creativity, the creators added the ‘inspire me’ tassel where users get inspiration right away.
The project has been produced for desktop, tablets and smartphones.
Tohoku Kitchen
October 29, 2012
Oh the creations that are being crafted with Javascript these days! Here’s one of the best I’ve seen for a while – Tohoku Kitchen developed by SHIFTBRAIN. Just beautifully put together.
Nike goes reasonable responsive
October 19, 2012
Following with recent trends Nike have taken the plunge and gone reasonably responsive – although with an interesting take on the idea – seemingly not to support a bespoke smartphone views? Maybe they’re thinking that pushing people towards tablets is the better move?
It’s to sell tea – Honest
October 16, 2012
This summer, Honest Tea conducted experiments in 30 cities across the US to test people’s honesty. They set up unmanned pop-up stores and asked people to pay $1 per bottle on the honor system.
The data was collected and they compiled their findings into the National Honesty Index. A smart looking site created by Stinkdigital.
Microsoft gets responsive
October 10, 2012
Microsoft.com has recently launched an interesting new responsive home page.
The move to a responsive design framework is a reasonably brave one for such a corporate, and sees Microsoft transformed to the ‘bleeding edge’ of web design (some would argue), and certainly finds them aligning themselves with the current on-trend chatter, and ahead (from a digital design thinking perspective) of their obvious competition.
The site was designed by Paravel, who are very much leading the way in responsive design techniques. Check out Trent Walton‘s (Paravel) view of the project workflow. And get another perspective at Nishant Kothary‘s (Microsoft) excellent blog.
Serious design can feel good
September 24, 2012
For this year’s World Alzheimer’s Day, Ogilvy Brussels created this wonderfully simple design aimed at getting people aware of the day and to encourage them to donate their Facebook timeline.
I guess with projects like this there’s always a temptation to over-do the information, and in doing so lose the impact. It’s great to see in this case all involved held to the ‘simple’ philosophy – which has only added to the significance and meaning.
Life’s even better in 3D
September 17, 2012
How do you go about creating fresh and innovative new ways of reinforcing the notion that the best things in life are even better in 3D? Well, LG asked Perfect Fools.
The result is ‘LG 3D Studio,’ an experimental platform set up to explore new possibilities of 3D experience. While ‘3D Newsfeed’ is the first in a series of LG 3D Studio creations, the brand is actively encouraging feedback and ideas for future experiments via the app and their Facebook page.
Selling an ultrabook: it’s all very emotional
September 4, 2012
Customer engagement is key to selling products (wow there’s a revelation for you!). So how do you go about convincing laptop owners that their lap warming block of technology is just that, and to be really cool you need an Ultrabook?
Well, one way is to get a little emotional with the subject. Engage an audience through a series of time-released webisodes, make it all a little social, make sure there’s some subtle product references, then pop your logo on the screen alongside the drama.
The Beauty Inside, created by B-Reel, is an ongoing film where the audience can play the main part. Watch the video, then like it to hear about the next episodes or audition. You can get to play Alex yourself on their Facebook page.
