Glowing review of a new iPhone calendar app called “Peek.” The writer starts with an acknowledgement of the pesky gap between intentions and behaviors (via New Years resolutions), and then explains how making the...
Category - Fifty Bits Design
It turns out it doesn’t take much to nudge eaters in the right direction when it comes to their food choices. And according to a new study from Harvard, those effects last as long as two years. Researchers fiddled with...
NPR’s Planet Money reports on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the US Federal Reserve. In the wake of the Panic of 1907, J.P. Morgan “persuaded” bankers from around the country to pool their resources...
When it comes to employing framing to promote positions, Washington DC is usually ground zero: troop surge, death tax, No Child Left Behind, government power grab… the list goes on and on. Framing uses words or concepts...
Wired.com reports on serial entrepreneur Ev Williams’ talk at the XOXO Fest in Portland: “The internet makes human desires more easily attainable. In other words, it offers convenience,” [Williams] said. “Convenience...
Apple iOS sports a “Do Not Disturb” feature If you’ve ever moved your alarm clock across the room so that you have to get out of bed to turn it off, you understand the difference between good intentions and good...
The folks at the New York Times are either super lucky, or they have a keen understanding of how to apply behavioral economics. Earlier this year, the New York Times began putting the majority of its content behind a “pay...
I gotta admit, G and I have been totally out of the Groupon loop. But a company that turns down billions from Google and plans an IPO with an implied valuation in the $20B range deserves a bit more attention. Other than...
It’s still a bit early to tell about the details of the new debt deal churned out of Washington over the weekend. But by all signals, it’s got elements that the more passionate members of both sides of the aisle...
CNN and NY Times report on the gubment’s new approach to goosing better eating: ditch the food pyramid and replace it with an easier-to-read icon based on a plate. Under the surface, there’s some decent behavioral...
