Note: This comes from a five month old draft. Unfortunately, the situation has gotten worse rather than better, although we now have a roadmap to vaccination. […]
How to Use Self-Discovery to Navigate These Pandemical Times
Nothing right now feels “normal.” Speaking for myself, six seven months into Covid-19 it remains disorienting that my typical hobbies, routines, and routes remain inaccessible […]
How Psychology Helped Me Recognize Toxic Tech
One thing coronavirus has exposed more broadly is the importance of (good) ethics in tech and design. There have been people raising the alarm about […]
Every Project Needs Its Own Research
A key part of our process in a behavior change design project is to do a literature review. We comb the published peer-reviewed literature to […]
What Behavior Change for Sustainability and Pandemic Survival Have In Common
Last week I was the inaugural guest on Sustainable UX‘s live podcast series, run by my friend and colleague James Christie. Initially the discussion was […]
Can Context-Bound Research Replicate?
The reproducibility crisis has hit psychology hard. In writing Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change, I found myself having to double check whether some of the studies […]
Taming My Financial Beast
A very cool thing happened today; I was quoted in a New York Times article! A few months ago I spoke with writer Sally French about […]
Three Surprising Things About Writing a Book
Since last January, I’ve written a book! That’s one reason why I’ve not updated this site much–it turns out, I have a limited amount of […]
Why We Can’t Predict Future Happiness: the Hedonic Treadmill
Have you ever found yourself daydreaming about a day, perhaps not too far in the future, where you’ve finally gotten something you really want and […]
Case Study: Patagonia Makes Questions Easy To Answer
A major challenge with designing health questionnaires is making sure that questions are both clinically meaningful and are easy for users to answer. One example […]