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The commitments we make have a powerful effect on us and play an important role in the things we don, the products we buy, and the habits we form.

Habit-forming technologies leverage the user’s past behavior to initiate an external trigger in the future.

User habits are hard to break and confer powerful competitive advantages to any company fortunate enough to successfully create them.

When you create something that you would use, that you believe makes the user’s life better, you are facilitating a healthy habit.

Art is often fleeting; products that form habits around entertainment tend to fade quickly from users’ lives.

…the goal of finding the Habit Path is to determine which of these steps is critical for creating devoted users so that you can modify the experience to encourage this behavior.

Observing your own behavior can inspire the next habit-forming product or inform a breakthrough improvement to an existing solution.

Old habits die hard and few people have the foresight to see how new innovations will eventually change their routines.

By looking forward to anticipate where interfaces will change, the enterprising designer can uncover new ways to form user habits.

…people cling to their habits and fear loss of power and structure.