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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products Hardcover – Illustrated, 4 November 2014

by Nir Eyal (Author), Ryan Hoover (Editor)

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How do successful companies create products people can't put down?

Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?

Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hook Model--a four-step process embedded into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior. Through consecutive "hook cycles," these products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back again and again without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging.

Hooked is based on Eyal's years of research, consulting, and practical experience. He wrote the book he wished had been available to him as a start-up founder--not abstract theory, but a how-to guide for building better products. Hooked is written for product managers, designers, marketers, start-up founders, and anyone who seeks to understand how products influence our behavior.

Eyal provides readers with:

- Practical insights to create user habits that stick.
- Actionable steps for building products people love.

- Fascinating examples from the iPhone to Twitter, Pinterest to the Bible App, and many other habit-forming products.

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Language : English
Hardcover : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 1591847788
ISBN-13 : 978-1591847786

Best Sellers Rank: 4,294 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 7 in Industrial Design Studies
- 18 in Applied Psychology
- 96 in Engineering & Technology

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Voted one of the best business books of the year by Goodreads readers.

With concrete advice and tales from the product-development trenches, this is a thoughtful discussion of how to create something that users never knew they couldn't live without.
--Publisher's Weekly

"A must read for everyone who cares about driving customer engagement.
--Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup

"The book everyone in Silicon Valley is talking about."
--Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, founder of The Next Web

"Hooked gives you the blueprint for the next generation of products. Read Hooked or the company that replaces you will."
--Matt Mullenweg, Founder of Wordpress

"The most high bandwidth, high octane, and valuable presentation I have ever seen on this subject."
--Rory Sutherland, Vice-Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather

You'll read this. Then you'll hope your competition isn't reading this. It's that good.
--Stephen P. Anderson, Author of Seductive Interaction Design

Nir's work is an essential crib sheet for any startup looking to understand user psychology."
--Dave McClure, Founder 500 Startups

When it comes to driving engagement and building habits, Hooked is an excellent guide into the mind of the user.
--Andrew Chen, Technology Writer and Investor

"I've learned a great deal from Nir, and you will too. He'll help you design habits to benefit your users, and your company."
--Dr. Stephen Wendel, author Designing for Behavior Change

About the Author

Nir Eyal spent years in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied, and at times rejected, techniques described in Hooked to motivate and influence users. He has taught courses on applied consumer psychology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and at Fortune 500 companies. His writing on technology, psychology, and business appears in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today.

To learn more or to get in touch with Nir, visit nirandfar.com

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J. Walnes

This is the absolute best book on product development I've ever read

24 August 2014 - Published on Amazon.com

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If you're trying to build the next big app, you need user engagement. This book lays down a model building engagement by having users constantly return to your app. In the beginning this is prompted, but eventually it'll become instinct. This is how viral loops are formed.

It lays out the "Hook Model", a basic framework of the 4 key stages of each loop:

1. Trigger: How does the loop initiate? In the beginning this may be through external triggers (such as an email, notification, icon badge, etc) but through successive loops the user eventually creates internal triggers where a particular thought or emotion will send them back to your product.

2. Action: Once the user is aware they need to use your product (through the trigger), what it the simplest action they can perform to get some kind of reward. For example a Facebook "Like".

3. Variable reward: How are they rewarded for this behavior? This could be social validation (e.g. "my friends approve!"), collection of material resources (e.g. add a photo to a collection) or personal gratification (e.g. inbox zero). The "variable" part is important - rewards should not always be predictable, encouraging users to repeat the cycle.

4. Investment: Finally, the user needs to put something back in to increase the chance of repeating the loop. This could be content (e.g. a book in your Kindle), user entered data (e.g. profile information or linked accounts), reputation (e.g. something to gain a 5 star seller review), or a learned skill (e.g. I'm now really good at this software program). The investment also sets up the trigger to for the next cycle of the loop.

This book is a really easy read. I wanted something that would get to the crux of the problem and set out a practical framework of how to apply it with examples, without being overly verbose on history and research. It delivered.

285 people found this helpful

Gisela Hausmann

Fascinating

3 April 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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Love the book.
I will readily admit I borrowed "Hooked" from my library first, lately I delved into a couple of hyped books (for more details please see my other reviews) and now got smarter. I don't buy every book asap. However, after reading halfway through "Hooked" I purchased it because it is fascinating and intelligent on many levels.

Browsing through a couple of negative reviews here I noted that somebody mentioned that this book "Hooked" doesn't provide a perfect blueprint; well, no book ever does. Anybody who believes that is either under the age of 23 or has never tried any business endeavor.

What I like about "Hooked" is that author Nir Eyal presents a multi-faceted picture and thinking. He does not have one scenario but explains how the experiences from many fields lead us to a model how we (most likely) can "hook" customers.

The book is witty and Eyal brings a lot of obvious examples that make the reader think:
"... (p.44) Types of External Triggers: ... Imagine if Facebook or Twitter needed to buy an ad to prompt users to revisit their sites–these companies would soon go broke..."
It's a brilliant example. Most of the people who read this book have a presence on either one or both social media sites, hence we can imagine the situation and we can see why "the advertisement model of yore" is not the answer to today's more complex situation any longer. Opposite to only 25 years ago when running ads on TV or in newspapers was one sure path to success today we have more opportunities hence that old system isn't working any longer.

The book features absolutely fascinating examples.
On p. 32 Eyal lays out that today many investors want to know "Are you building a vitamin or a painkiller?" implying, though a "great vitamin" will have many fans and followers who swear by it there will be others who don't care about living healthy; in contrast, everybody who has pains needs a painkiller whether they like it or not.
Eyal makes the reader go through the exercise of pondering if today's hottest consumer technology companies (FB, Twitter, Instagram etc.) offer vitamins or painkillers. Indeed, though at first it looks as if all of them offer vitamins there are already enough "addicted" people who need "social media site painkillers" to vent, to reaffirm their own worth and so on...

It is this interesting and fascinating thinking which I believe to be valuable to all people regardless of whether they are entrepreneurs who want to sell something, or people who work in a steady employment.

These days we never know how things are going, hence adding this riveting perspective to one's thinking can only be extremely beneficial.

I also appreciated the detailed list of social media sites and apps mentioned throughout the book. I am one of the people Eyal mentions, people who have reservations to join just any site and build cross connections. Still, learning about Codeacademy, Mahalo, Fitocracy, Any.do, Tinder, and what makes visitors come back to them was extremely interesting,.

Recommended with a wholehearted – 5 stars. Now purchased; in fact, I am thinking about getting my two children copies of this book too.

Gisela Hausmann, author and Amazon review expert.

42 people found this helpful

Good Information - that's already available on the author's website

11 October 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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There is some really helpful information in the book. Nir does a good job of explaining each idea and then providing multiple real world examples to showcase how each idea is being used by organizations you know. If you know anything about addiction or habit formation, you probably already know the gist. Nir's book is really helpful in translating it over to digital spaces. Truth be told, my favorite part was at the end of each chapter where he lays out questions you should consider to create your own habit-forming product.

The reason I gave this 3 stars is most of what he says is available, for free already, on his site. It's not necessarily laid out as explicitly, but between his articles, weekly email, and podcast, you can get a lot of the same information and many of the same examples. It's a fast and easy read at about 200 pages with images inflating the page total. If you can get this on sale for $5, buy it. You'll certainly get your money's worth.

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