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Helping students and young professionals create a balanced lifestyle focusing on personal growth, continuous learning, and self-care

At Gameful Bits, our digital tools, resources, and learning materials use gameful design to help you organize your life, boost your learning capacity, and develop essential skills for a balanced and thriving life in a fun, positive, and engaging way.

Gameful Bits is operated by Dr. Gustavo Tondello, a gamification specialist, software engineer, researcher, and consultant.

If you want to apply gamification to your product or lifestyle, I can help you design personalized gameful solutions to create more engaging applications and experiences.

Articles

News and original posts about gamification, gameful design, user experience

Consulting

I can help you design personalized gameful experiences or teach you how to do it

Research

Learn about my past and ongoing gamification research projects

Publications

Read all my latest academic publications on gamification and user experience

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Level Up Your Year: Enhance Your Goals with Gamification
Juggling a million things – classes, work, social life, personal projects – often leaves New Year’s resolutions gathering dust. It’s a familiar struggle. We all have those big dreams: acing an exam, landing a dream job, mastering a new skill. But the daily grind can…
The Theoretical Basis of User Types: My review of the article recently published in IJHCS
A team of researchers from German, Finnish, and Canadian Universities, led by Dr. Jeanine Kirchner-Krath, recently published the interesting article Uncovering the theoretical basis of user types: An empirical analysis and critical discussion of user typologies in research on tailored gameful design. They analyzed and…
Groups of Gameful Design Elements
Classifying User Preferences for Groups of Gameful Design Elements
I have previously described my research that results in the creation of the Groups of Gameful Design Elements. If you're not familiar with it yet, I highly recommend reading the three-post series starting with the one linked in the previous sentence. In my work, I…