Type / Case Study
Year / 2023–2024
Role / Lead Product Design
Context / Enterprise Gamification · TaskUs

LevelUp.
Work that plays
like a game.

Say goodbye to mundane work management. LevelUp turns business goals into challenges, leaderboards and rewards: an enterprise gamification platform with 3D characters that lifted daily engagement 40% and became the company standard.

LevelUp gamification dashboard on a laptop: challenges, KPI trends and a live leaderboard
Engagement lift
40%
Daily users
35K
Countries
14
3D characters
Three.js
Context

Motivation was being managed with spreadsheets.

High-volume operations run on repetition, and repetition erodes motivation. Targets lived in spreadsheets, recognition arrived weeks late, and the people doing the work rarely saw their own progress. The brief was to gamify business goals: make hitting a KPI feel like winning, not filing.

At the heart of LevelUp are features built for that single purpose. Team and group management keeps organisation simple. Challenge creation ignites competitive spirit. Leaderboards track success in real time, and flash messages celebrate victories the moment they happen.

"If progress is invisible, motivation is optional. Make it visible, and it becomes a habit."
Design principle, LevelUp
Gamification Enterprise SaaS Two Audiences 3D · Three.js Leaderboards Design System
Two audiences

Managers configure.
Agents play.

LevelUp is really two products wearing one interface. Team leads live in the configuration plane: KPIs, targets, team structures, challenge rules, reward budgets. Agents live in the game itself: avatars, leaderboards, flash wins. Neither audience is the primary one, and the system fails if either is treated as an afterthought. A challenge that is effortless to configure but joyless to play dies in a week; a game agents love but managers take an hour to set up never gets created at all.

So every design decision had to hold in both directions at once. The difficulty curve a manager tunes in a dropdown is the emotional arc an agent rides for the next two weeks. The KPI a manager maps in a data table becomes the finish line an avatar crosses in front of the whole floor. Designing that handshake, configuration on one side and lived experience on the other, was the real work, and it shaped every screen in the system.

The loop

One flow, from goal to glory.

The user flow follows a single motivational loop, from defining success to celebrating it. Every screen belongs to one of eight moments, so managers and players always know where they stand and what comes next.

01 / Define

Set the goal

Managers define KPIs, targets and time frames. Every victory starts with a clear, measurable goal aligned to the team's objectives.

02 / Create

Craft the challenge

A challenge wizard turns any target into a competition in a few clicks: milestones, rewards and rules without a training manual.

03 / Customise

Make it personal

Players pick 3D avatars; managers tune difficulty, themes and durations so every challenge fits the team it is built for.

04 / Compete

Play the work

Races against time, team versus team, milestone hunts. Each format maps to a different operational moment and KPI type.

05 / Track

Live leaderboards

Real-time ranks by player, team and group. Progress is public, immediate and honest, which is what makes it motivating.

06 / Celebrate

Flash the wins

Dynamic flashcards announce every sale, milestone and MVP the moment it happens. Recognition stopped arriving weeks late.

07 / Finish

Cross the line

Winners take the spotlight with badges and hall-of-fame moments. The finish line is staged as a beginning, not an ending.

08 / Reward

Earn the perks

Badges, points and exclusive rewards reflect real work. Players wear their achievements, and the loop starts again.

LevelUp component library: buttons, dropdowns, navigation, badges and 3D avatars
Component library · buttons, navigation, badges and 3D avatar states
LevelUp product screens: challenges, leaderboards, MVP flashcards and rewards
Product screens · challenges, live leaderboards, MVP flashcards and rewards
LevelUp styleguide: branding colours and Exo 2 typography
Styleguide · branding colours and Exo 2 / Poppins typography
Craft

A game on the surface. A design system underneath.

Playful does not mean loose. The file is pixel-perfect with strict non-fractional sizing, organised layers with constructive naming and CSS hints, and advanced auto-layout with aspect ratios and min/max widths. The styleguide is kept deliberately minimal, backed by an extensive component library so teams can customise without breaking the system.

The visual language pairs Exo 2 and Poppins with a neon-on-dark palette and a cast of 3D characters built in Three.js. The characters carry the emotional weight: they are what players see climb the leaderboard, collect badges and take the MVP spotlight.

LevelUp file highlights: pixel perfect, organised layers, component library, free resources, minimal styleguide and auto-layout
Launch day

31 January 2024. The floor lights up.

LevelUp went live across TaskUs sites with the avatars on every screen: the MVP spotlight on the operations floor, live leaderboards in the boardroom, and teams watching their names climb in real time. Not a Figma frame. A shipped product, in the rooms it was designed for.

LevelUp live leaderboards on the boardroom screens during launch LevelUp MVP spotlight on a laptop on the operations floor at launch
LevelUp MVP leaderboard with two 3D avatars on an office screen
Launch day across TaskUs sites · MVP spotlight, live points, 3D avatars in production (names blurred)
Outcome

40% more engagement.
The company standard for gamification.

Daily engagement rose 40% and attrition dropped on high-volume queues. LevelUp was the first gamification system of its kind at TaskUs and is now the company standard, running alongside the wider product suite used by 35,000 people every day across 14 countries.

The deeper result is cultural: progress became visible, recognition became instant, and the scoreboard became something people check because they want to, not because they are told to.

40%
Daily engagement lift
1st
Gamification system at TaskUs
35K
Daily users in the ecosystem