Framework
Business

Hooked Model

Trigger, action, reward, investment

Best for
designing habit-forming products
Time
1–2 hr
Difficulty
Intermediate
Example

Designing a habit-forming loop in a daily journaling app

Trigger
  • Internal: post-work decompression
  • External: 9pm reminder
Action
  • One-tap entry from lock screen
  • Voice-to-text in 10 seconds
Reward
  • Streak preserved
  • Surfacing a memory from a year ago
Investment
  • Tagging + searching past entries
  • Custom prompts collection

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