Habit Summit Video Access

Habit Summit started in 2013 with the goal of bringing experts from around the world to share best practices and learnings in consumer psychology, design, and behavioral science. We hope you enjoy these presentations and go on to design products and services that involve healthy habits and behavior change.

Nir Eyal

Best-Selling Author, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Cashing-in on the Promise and Peril of Persuasive Technology

Jane McGonigal

Best-Selling Author, Reality is Broken and Super Better

Habits from the Future

Nandini Stocker

Conversational Design Lead, Google

Conversational Design Lead, Google

Carl D. Marci

Chief Neuroscientist, Nielsen Consumer Neuroscience

Rewired: Habits, Addictions and the Distracted Consumer

Susan Weinschenk

Behavioral Scientist & Author, 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

Top 5 Things You Need To Know About People to Design Engaging Products and Services

SC Moatti

Best-Selling Author, Mobilized, an Insider’s Guide to the Business and Future of Connected Technology

The Three Rules Behind the Most Successful Mobile Products

Irene Au

Design Partner, Khosla Ventures & Former Head of Design, Google, Yahoo, and Udacity

Design and the Self

Amy Bucher

Behavior Change Design Director, Mad*Pow

Highway to the Habit Zone: Driving Engagement for Behavior Change

Gad Saad

Professor of Marketing & Author, The Consuming Instinct

The Evolutionary and Biological Forces that Shape Consumer Behavior

Buster Benson

Product Manager, Slack; formerly Twitter & Habit Labs

A Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet for Building Better Products

Gabe Zichermann

Author, Gamification Expert, and Co-Founder of behavior change startup, Onward

The Effect of Technology Addiction On The Future of Engagement and Design

Nir Eyal

Best-Selling Author, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Indistractable: How to Focus In and Tune Out Digital Distraction

Gibson Biddle

Former VP Product, Netflix

Customer Obsession: Satisfying the Unsatisfiable via Consumer Science

Charlotte Blank

Chief Behavioral Officer, Maritz

Don’t be Creepy: Data Transparency in Customer Recommendations

Kees Oomen

Product Owner Persuasion, Booking.com

Using Consumer Psychology to Boost Customer Motivation

Dr. Kyra Bobinet

CEO, engagedIN & Consulting Faculty, Stanford School of Medicine

Neuroscience and Design of Compassion, Trust, and Connection

Jeni Fisher

Apps Business Development Manager, Google Play

How Apps Can Shape Your Future Self

David Lieb

Product Lead, Google Photos

Cognitive Overhead, or, Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think

Yu-Kai Chou

Author, Actionable Gamification

Engaging Onboarding Design

Dr. Yuping Liu-Thompkins

Professor of Marketing & Director of Customer Analytics and Strategy Collaboratory, Old Dominion University

How to Build Customer Habits Through Customer Relationship Management

Gina Gotthilf

VP Marketing & Growth, Duolingo

How Habits Grew Duolingo to Over 200 Million Users

Ximena Vengoechea

User Researcher at Pinterest and formerly at Twitter

Designing for People First, Product Second

Jane McGonigal

Writer, PsychologyOfGames.com

What The Psychology of Video Games Can Teach You About Product Engagement

Sarah Tavel

Partner, Greylock Partners

Why Engagement Matters to Investors

Peep Laja

Founder, ConversionXL

Persuasive Web Design – How to Get People to Take Action (Without Using Words)

Nir Eyal

Author of “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”

Hooked for Good: How Habit-Forming Products Improve Lives

Merci Victoria Grace

Growth, Slack

Habits at Work

Nathalie Nahai

Author of “Webs of Influence: The Psychology of Online Persuasion”

5 Key Psychological Principles of Persuasive Product Design

Ryan Hoover

Founder & CEO at Product Hunt

The Building Blocks of Community

James Clear

Author of “Transform Your Habits”

Habit Multipliers: Improving Your Habits to Improve Your Products

Bo Ren

Product Manager at Instagram

How to Design Products for Behavior Change

John Egan

Lead Growth Engineer at Pinterest

Measuring for Engagement

Tristan Harris

Product Philosopher at Google

The Attention Economy: From Time Spent to Lives Well Lived

Nir Eyal

Author of “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Technologies”

Building a Habit-Forming Product for the Enterprise

Jake Knapp & Daniel Burka

Design Partners at Google Ventures

Sprint: How to Prototype and Test Any Idea in 5 Days

Gretchen Rubin

New York Times bestselling author of “The Happiness Project” and “Happier at Home”

The Secret of Making and Breaking Habits

Jeff Atwood

Co-founder of Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange Network

Creating a Community Habit

Jane McGonigal

Best-Selling Author, Reality is Broken and Super Better

Habits from the Future

Jules Maltz

Partner at Institutional Venture Partners

Investing in Habit-Forming Businesses

Natasha Dow Schull

Author of “Addiction by Design” and Associate Professor at MIT

Addiction By Design

Josh Elman

Product lead at Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn and Venture Capital Partner at Greylock Partners

How Twitter Built User Habits