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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Author
Eyal, Nir
Date
4 Nov 2014
Publisher
Penguin
Focus
Design Practice
Category
Academic Scholar

This book is controversial in that it takes BJ Fogg’s psychological model and applies it a new model that facilitates addiction (aka getting “hooked”).

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Why do some products capture our attention while others fade into obscurity?

What makes us check our phones, open an app, or scroll a feed without even thinking?

Is there a repeatable pattern behind how technology hooks us?

In Hooked, Nir Eyal reveals the secret psychology behind the world’s most engaging products.