Episode 162: Designing for Behavior Change with Amy Bucher

How do you design a product that truly changes people's lives? Our guest today is Amy Bucher — a UX specialist focusing on behavior-change design, and the author of Engaged. You'll learn about the core principles of behavior-change design, how to help users achieve their goals, how accountability works, and how to craft an engaging and motivating product experience.

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Show Notes

• Engaged — Amy's new book on behavior change (also available on Amazon)
• Mad*Pow — Amy's place of work, a "purpose-driven agency"
• SuperBetter — a book by Jane McGonigal
• The COM-B Behavior Change Model
• Atomic Habits — a book by James Clear
• What is Jobs to Be Done (JTBD)?
• Episode 151: Powerful Case Studies with Joel Klettke
• Participatory design — a Wikipedia article
• Motivational interviewing — a Wikipedia article
• Why We Do What We Do — a book by Edward L. Deci with Richard Flaste
• Amy's personal website
• Use promocode UIBREAKFAST to get 15% off Amy's book, Engaged
• Follow Amy on Twitter: @amybphd

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