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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

By: Nir Eyal, Ryan Hoover
Narrated by: Nir Eyal
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Note to Audible Listeners: As of December 2019, this version of the Hooked audiobook has been revised and rerecorded to greatly improve audio quality. Please disregard any reviews mentioning poor audio quality prior to December 2019.

Why do some products capture our attention, while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us? This audiobook introduces listeners to the "Hooked Model", a four-step process companies use to build customer habits. Through consecutive cycles through the hook, successful products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back repeatedly - without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging.

Hooked is a guide to building products people use because they want to, not because they have to. Written for product managers, designers, marketers, startup founders, and people eager to learn more about the things that control our behaviors, this audiobook gives listeners:

  • Practical insights to create user habits that stick.
  • Actionable steps for building products people love.
  • Behavioral techniques used by Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and other habit-forming products.
  • New for second edition! An additional case study for building health habits.

Nir Eyal distilled years of research, consulting, and practical experience to write a manual for creating habit-forming products. Nir has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. His writing on technology, psychology, and business appears in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today. He is also the author of Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.

©2014 Nir Eyal (P)2014 Nir Eyal
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Practical, straight to the point. Great examples. It has enhanced my product development and marketing strategies. Thankyou.

Really, really good.

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Helps to understand the digital world of today.
Guidance for building and insight to use of today's most common apps.

insightful reading

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Great performance by Nir and easily applicable content. We read this in our book club as a team of product managers and designers and we were able to apply our learning straight away. Highly recommended!

One of the best product by books I’ve read!

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Are you a facilitator or an entertainer when delivering your product? Have you simplified your steps to take your customer through to your call to action? if not, pick this one up and hear in simple steps how to maximise your habit forming products. Great case studies ie AnyDo and many more hidden gems, you won't be disappointed!

Nir Delivers Another Mind Blowing Book

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some of the apps are now old and have changed a touch but the content is still relevant, though the book should not be taken as gospel. It's a good first step for product managers and designers trying to design more sustainable products that do not impact users' lives negatively

Good for product and design people starting out

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Really good content and lots of valuable lessons learned in a clearly and articulately read audiobook. Love the free supplementary content 😀

Powerful insights and beautifully read by the author.

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Relevant for anyone growing or building a product.

Nothing ground braking, but a good framework to think through and examine how it relates to your product.

Will likely re-listen to this again in 12 months as a refresher.

Great listen for any product / growth / startup people

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very unusual look into habit forming products. out if my usual domain so we fascinating to know how it all works. The narration is engaging and easy to follow.

So this is how those apps are so addictive

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Great source of information if you have a product in mind. The narration is a little off, but not enough to warrant the other negative reviews.

I will definitely listen again.

Excellent information for entrepreneurs

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Love how Nir brought the concepts to life with well known examples and made it all practical with the Do This Now sections.

Super interesting and easy to follow

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