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Badass: Making Users Awesome
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Badass: Making Users Awesome

by Kathy Sierra
January 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
294 pages
7h 11m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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191
The Challenge What Experts Do Help Them Move Forward
Remove Blocks Progress + Payoffs
The International Kiteboarding
Organization (IKO) offers training
courses with level progressions from
entry/recreational to professional
The problem with most
learning and mastery paths is
they dene what you should
learn, not what you will do.
A learning/mastery path that
tells you what course to take
next, book to read, or topic to
study is still better than nothing,
but it’s far more effective if we
map topics-learned directly to
mastered-skills.
Remember that we also need a
“GPS” for the map. There must
be a clear way for users to
gure out what they can now
do and where they now are on
the map.
A Performance Path Map is about what you do,
not what you learn
THIS is how a Performance Path Map
should look: skills, not just knowledge
192
The Challenge What Experts Do Help Them Move Forward
Remove Blocks Progress + Payoffs
Seeing a progressive series
of milestones demysties the
process of becoming badass
Just knowing a Performance Path
exists is a strong motivator
Seeing a credible path
boosts condence that
they CAN get here.
Compelling Context
Following this path step-by-step
got Fred there, and if he can do it,
then I denitely can.
We want this
NOT this
Who wouldn’t want to be that good? ...
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