How to break habits
Editor’s note: If 40% of our time is spent on habits we have a huge opportunity to change the way we do things for the better. But how? Charles Duhigg, author of the Power of Habit, explains how.
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Building Products, Building Habits
Editor’s note: Some great insights here on how to use hooks to get users interested in your digital products.
Designing with the mind in mind: simple guide to understanding user interface design
Editor’s note: The progression from controlled to automatic behaviours raises an obvious question for designers of interactive applications, online services, and electronic appliances: How can they be designed so that using them becomes automatic within a reasonable amount of time? This article shows how.
Inheriting second natures
Editor’s note: As the article says: ‘Born with the habit of acquiring new habits we access a behavioral toolkit that is nowhere in our genes . . . Reason dictates that we should choose our second natures wisely, since force of habit ensures we will repeatedly enact them without deliberation. We are habit-forming and habit-farming animals.’
Three behaviour change principles
Professor Karen Pine shared her three behaviour change principles at today’s Meaning Conference. 1 Learn…
Interview: BJ Fogg on ‘tiny habits’ and learning
Editor’s note: Stanford academic and behaviour change expert shares his thinking on how to change behaviour using tiny steps. This is a 10-minute video that’s well worth a watch.