A couple of days ago, @good-karma posted about the idea of implementing gamification to eSteem by adding reward badges, and called for badge design ideas. In response to that, I came up with 3 badges, to recognize users for their participation in the eSteem community and promote the usage of the app:
I was thinking that implementing a tiered badge system, where higher-tiered badges are harder to acquire, would help promote the usage of the app similar to StackOverflow's gold, silver, and bronze badges. Here are the descriptions of the badges, in ascending tier classification:
1. Novice
The novice badge would be awarded to users for using eSteem for 7 consecutive days (1 week)
2. Advocate
The advocate badge would be awarded to users for using eSteem for 30 consecutive days (1 month)
3. Connoisseur
The connoisseur badge would be awarded to users for using eSteem for 90 consecutive days (1 quarter)
In general, I suggest that the badges be initially greyed out, until they have been awarded to the user. I also suggest a ring progress bar be positioned around the badges.
For these badges, the progress bars for all participation badges would increment by the same amount at the same time for every consecutive day. If the user skips a single day, all progress bars would reset. If a badge has already been awarded, its corresponding progress bar would be removed. Only the progress bars of the higher tier badges would continue to run and/or reset, if they have not be awarded already.
I am a software developer, not exactly a graphics designer, but I am eager to learn new skills, so I gave this a shot. Comment below if you have feedback. In the end, @good-karma will decide what to implement, so share as much suggestion as you can.