Happiness Design with Laurie Santos
The Behavioral Design Podcast
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App Designers, What Are Your Thoughts on Streaks?
The big question for app designers is, you know, what's it there for? Is it really trying to be a reminder to get people to be mindful and notice? Or do you really want people to be able to see over time how mood tracking is changing? So I think you want to use different techniques depending on what the ultimate goal is. And in terms of streaks, it's obviously very widely used for kind of this combination of adding some tracking elements and also this investment that you have made into this habit becomes almost like a visual representation of the habit.
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