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How to Build Habit-Forming Products

By Nir Eyal

Year Published: 2014
ISBN-13: 978-0241184837
Categories: Habits, Innovation, Products

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To initiate action, doing must be easier than thinking. Remember, a habit is a behavior done with little or no conscious thought.

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The more effort – either physical or mental – required to perform the desired action, the less likely it is to occur.

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…understanding why the user needs your product or service is critical.

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…any technology or product that significantly reduces the steps to complete a task will enjoy high adoption rates by the people it assists.

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To successfully simplify a product, we must remove obstacles that stand in the user’s way.

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…for companies building technology solutions, the greatest return on investment generally comes from increasing a product’s ease of use.

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…heuristics – the mental shortcuts we take to make decisions and form opinions.

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…a product can decrease in perceived value if it starts off as scare and become abundant.

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…perception can form a personal reality based on how a product is framed, even when there is little relationship with objective quality.

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…what draws us to act is not the sensation we received from the reward itself, but the need to alleviate the craving for that reward.

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