TY - BOOK AU - Eyal, Nir AU - Hoover, Ryan TI - Hooked: : How to Build Habit-Forming Products SN - 9780241184837 PY - 2019/// CY - New Delhi PB - Penguin Life KW - Consumer behavior KW - Habit formation KW - Product design KW - User-centered system design KW - Human-computer interaction KW - Internet marketing KW - Psychology, Industrial N1 - Includes bonus content, acknowledgements and notes N2 - 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 ER -