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Lenny's Podcast · June 22, 2023 · 60m

Building habit-forming products | Nir Eyal

Lenny Rachitsky, Nir Eyal
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Nir Eyal on the Hook Model for building habit-forming products: trigger, action, variable reward, investment. How great products create behavioral loops that bring users back without external prompting. The ethics of deliberate habit formation.

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The Hook Model is pure environment design — engineering behavioral loops through product architecture
Eyal: the Hook Model is applied environment design. Each element (trigger, action, reward, investment) is an environmental cue designed to shape user behavior. The user doesn't decide to come back — the environment brings them back.
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The hedonic treadmill of variable rewards — users adapt even to unpredictable pleasure
Eyal: variable rewards work because they delay hedonic adaptation. But over time, even variable rewards lose their power — users adapt to the pattern of variability itself. This is why social media apps must constantly evolve.
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