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Recently, Habitry was approached to design a mental-health chatbot. The company is quite new and didn’t have a pre-existing design process that we were slotting into, so they basically asked us, “how do we even Motivation Science?” from scratch. This was a fun problem to think about and we thought...
“The most ordinary conversations are fraught with life and all its meanings.” — John Haugeland, Having Thought Habitry gets asked to help out with a lot of chatbot design. We got our start teaching health coaches about how to have need-supportive conversations with their patients and clients, so...
This weekend, two giants in the field of Behavior Change Research, professors Martin Hagger and Mike Weed had a debate at the 2018 Meeting of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity in Hong Kong. (Oh, you didn’t know? Did you miss the Super Bowl commercial?) The...
Stop Accidentally Making Losers
Stop Scaring and Start Motivating.
The Most Powerful Behavior Change Technology in History.
Why some push notifications make people quit apps and why others work.
An Introduction to Self-Determination Theory and its Practical Applications.
A Nobel Prize doesn’t answer the hard questions we’re all avoiding about nudging.
We clearly need motivating technology. Now we just need people to design it.