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The Thimbles Summary
Hooked
The book in one sentence
The products people use every day without being asked are built around a repeating four-step cycle, and you can design that cycle deliberately, provided you use it to genuinely help people.
Who it's for
Product managers, app and software founders, designers and marketers, and anyone curious about why they reach for their phone without thinking.
The big idea
Eyal, who has taught at Stanford’s business and design schools, set out to explain why some digital products become part of daily life while most are forgotten. His answer is that habit-forming products guide users through the same loop again and again until the behaviour becomes automatic. Once that happens, customers come back on their own, without costly advertising, and a company gains an advantage that competitors find hard to dislodge.
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