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  • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

  • By: Nir Eyal, Ryan Hoover
  • Narrated by: Nir Eyal
  • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (762 ratings)
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Summary

Note to Audible Listeners: As of December 2019, this version of the Hooked audiobook has been revised and rerecorded to greatly improve audio quality. Please disregard any reviews mentioning poor audio quality prior to December 2019.

Why do some products capture our attention, while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us? This audiobook introduces listeners to the "Hooked Model", a four-step process companies use to build customer habits. Through consecutive cycles through the hook, successful products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back repeatedly - without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging.

Hooked is a guide to building products people use because they want to, not because they have to. Written for product managers, designers, marketers, startup founders, and people eager to learn more about the things that control our behaviors, this audiobook gives listeners:

  • Practical insights to create user habits that stick.
  • Actionable steps for building products people love.
  • Behavioral techniques used by Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and other habit-forming products.
  • New for second edition! An additional case study for building health habits.

Nir Eyal distilled years of research, consulting, and practical experience to write a manual for creating habit-forming products. Nir has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. His writing on technology, psychology, and business appears in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today. He is also the author of Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.

©2014 Nir Eyal (P)2014 Nir Eyal

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Enjoyed this really insightful

story was a little lacking but overall I enjoyed the examples and message Nir and Ryan Brought out

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Worst narrator ever

Sounds like a dumb redneck pretend know it all. Difficult to listen despite great content.

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a good habit to have

very good book, great insights. decent narration. I felt this is a good general UX book as well as a book on habit focused design.

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Excellent book

Packed full of insightful advice and guidance för creating habit forming products. Useful for any entrepreneur, business, strategist or designer.

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Reconfirms

Slot of the book is common sense. There are some 'Do this' points with little exercises to do which help and a few key points to think about.

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If you're looking to create a product of any kind this is for you

Gives incredible insights and groundbreaking discoveries made in the last century. It has a clear structure how to attain and retain customers.

Short, precise and to the point!

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New narration

A good book with interesting insights concerning product design and digital design. The new narration is alright but does go quite slowly and is a little monotone. Once you get into the topic of the book, it is easy to get used to though. I would definitely recommend the book.

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Great book also read indistractable

well worth reading for anyone designing products for the first time. strongly recommend.

indistractable by the same author is also excellent at helping you come to terms with digital distraction

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Very insightful!

This book is well written, informative, compact and well read. I've listened to it 3 times

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Interesting book, shame about narration

Very interesting subject and critical you know this subject if you're thinking about building an app requiring daily interaction / changes to existing habits.

Let down by the narration. Audible say it has been improved the narration in 2014, I downloaded this 2019 and it's still awful. Increase the speed to 1.25 and it's not so bad.

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