Behavior Change in the Time of Coronavirus: Why We Need Systems Thinking
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 …
A Brief Pandemic Reflection
As I write this, it’s been almost seven weeks since I’ve been to my office. My town has been under stay-at-home orders for about a …
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 …
12 Bits of Brilliance: Engaged Interviews
One of my favorite parts of writing Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change was talking to experts for their perspectives. Each of the twelve chapters of Engaged concludes …
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 …
Engaged is Now Available for Pre-Order
I promise this won’t be an all-book-all-the-time website forever, but right now things are happening fast and I’m excited! As of today, Engaged: Designing for …