Nir Eyal – Building habit-forming products

October 10, 2014 at 05:04 PM
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Nir Eyal, the author and entrepreneur behind the book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, talks about the secrets behind the success of companies like Facebook and Twitter. What is it that makes a product habit-forming and even addictive?

Nir argues that it's a hook that consists of a chain of events: a trigger, an action, a reward and an investment. In this talk he breaks down the four elements and explains how to use this knowledge of how habits are formed to create great products.

About the author

Martin Eriksson

Martin Eriksson

Martin Eriksson has 25+ years experience building world-class online products in both corporate and start-up environments for global brands such as Monster, Financial Times, Huddle, and Covestor. He is the Founder of ProductTank, the Co-Founder and Curator of Mind the Product, and a Product Partner at leading venture capital fund EQT Ventures. He is also the author of the best-seller Product Leadership, How Top Product Leaders Launch Great Products and Build Successful Teams (O'Reilly, 2017).

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