Nir Eyal

Nir Eyal is an Israeli-born American author, lecturer and investor known for his bestselling book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.[2]

This article is about the author. For the bioethicist, see Nir Eyal (bioethicist).
Nir Eyal
OccupationAuthor
LanguageEnglish
ResidenceNew York, U.S.
Education
Subjectpsychology, technology, business
Notable worksHooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products[1]
Website
www.nirandfar.com

Biography

Nir Eyal was born on February 19, 1980 in Hadera, Israel. When he was three, his family immigrated to the United States and settled in a suburb of Orlando, Florida.[3][4][5] He earned a B.A. at Emory University in 2001.[6] He then worked for Boston Consulting Group and a solar panel installation firm before attending Stanford for his master's degree.[3]

Academic and literary career

After graduating from the Master of Business Administration program at Stanford in 2008,[6] Eyal and fellow students founded a company that placed online ads in Facebook, with Eyal serving as CEO.[4] His work in the company sparked his interest in the psychology of users, and he went on to become a consultant in product design.[4] In 2012, he taught a course in the program on product design at the Stanford University School of Engineering.[4][7]

Eyal's expertise is in behavioral engineering, which incorporates elements of behavioral science to enable software designers to develop habit-forming products for businesses.[8] He has taught university courses, given speeches, and published books about intersection of psychology and technology and business. His writing has appeared in Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, and other publications.[9][10][11]

In 2014 Eyal published his first book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, which became a Wall Street Journal best seller.[12][13] The title reflects Eyals' idea of the "hook model", which aims to "build products that create habit-forming behavior in users via a looping cycle that consists of trigger, an action, a variable reward, and continued investment."[14]

His second book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, was written with Julie Li and published in September 2019.[15][16]

Eyal has spoken out against proposals to regulate habit-forming technologies, arguing that it is an individual users' responsibility to control their own use of such products.[2]

Published works
  • Eyal, Nir (2019). Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. BenBella Books. ISBN 978-1948836531.
  • Eyal, Nir (2014). Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. Random House. ISBN 978-1591847786.

References
  1. "Nir Eyal: How Easy Is It To "Unhook" Ourselves From Our Devices?". TED Radio Hour. NPR. npr.org. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  2. Klein, Ezra (7 August 2019). "Is Big Tech addictive? A debate with Nir Eyal". VOX. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  3. Bowles, Nellie (2019-10-06). "Addicted to Screens? That's Really a You Problem". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
  4. Hallak, Yael (6 September 2019). "How to Cure Your Kids' Addiction to Technology". Haaretz. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  5. Klug, Lisa (28 February 2016). "A kibbutz experience in California does wonders for the soul". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  6. "Nir Eyal." Contemporary Authors Online. Gale, 2015. Retrieved via Gale In Context: Biography database, 11 October 2019.
  7. Shinal, John (30 January 2018). "The professor who wrote the book on making addictive technology is having second thoughts". CNBC.
  8. Greenwald, Ted (23 March 2015). "Compulsive Behavior Sells". MIT Technology Review.
  9. Eyal, Nir (23 June 2019). "How the people who built Slack use it without going bonkers". Fast Company. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  10. Eyal, Nir (12 November 2014). "How Customers Get Hooked on Products". HBR.org.
  11. Eyal, Nir (31 August 2016). "Should Companies Stop People From Getting Hooked". The Atlantic. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  12. Matveeva, Sophia (22 August 2019). "Essential Technology Books For Non-Technical Founders". Forbes.com.
  13. Fowler, Geoffrey (1 February 2017). "Take Back Your Brain From Social Media". WSJ.com.
  14. Entis, Laura (11 January 2017). "How the ‘Hook Model’ Can Turn Customers Into Addicts". Fortune.
  15. Eyal, Nir (5 June 2018). "This behavioral designer’s top brain hacks for beating distraction". Fast Company. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  16. "4 Steps to Breaking Free from Time Constraints and Living the Life You Want". Entrepreneur.com. 7 May 2019.
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