When users notice personalization

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Octalysis is a practitioner framework built from observing games, not a validated scientific model.Actionable Gamification Ch.15, pp.399-400

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Diagnostic question
The key action at each stage
desired actions question
Names the one action wanted from users at each lifecycle stage, so every lens rates the right behavior.
Diagnostic question
Quick scan: the work users put in
investment quick scan
The fifth of Hooked's five fundamental questions, used as the default quick scan of the investment link.
Diagnostic question
User quick ratio
growth accounting question
Computes new plus resurrected over churned users for the last 28 days, and how long it has been below 1.
Diagnostic question
Revenue components and NRR
revenue retention question
Reads recurring revenue components and 12-month net revenue retention, the revenue-side maturity signal.
Diagnostic question
Current-user retention and resurrection
current user retention question
Reads how many current users stay active and how many returning users come back after a long absence.
Diagnostic question
Where a decline comes from
decline split question
Splits a decline in actives or revenue by phase before anything is prescribed.

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