This week's must-reads: Hunting for Habits: Keying in on smart design to make a product irresistible

In my work as a behavioral designer, I come across stories on the importance of using psychology to influence behavior. Here's my weekly round-up of the most important stories at the intersection of psychology, technology, and business.

Hunting for Habits: Keying in on smart design to make a product irresistible

In this post, Ryan Hoover describes the design decisions and strategies used to build habit-forming products; ones that he has used to design Product Hunt.

Why Great Products Do Only One Thing

One feature at a time is better than two or three.

What do we actually know about the risks of screen time and digital media?

Some tentative links are in place, but many crucial details are fuzzy.

Beware of Simplistic Narratives about Teens and Technology

These researchers have studied young people’s use of networked technologies for over a decade — before the existence of the iPhone, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram.

Nir Eyal is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and blogs about the psychology of products at NirAndFar.com. For more insights on changing behavior, join his free newsletter and receive a free workbook.