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Talk to the Elephant: Design Learning for Behavior Change
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Talk to the Elephant: Design Learning for Behavior Change

by Julie Dirksen
September 2023
Beginner
320 pages
8h 45m
English
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Conclusion

(IN WHICH WE WRAP THIS UP SO YOU CAN GET STARTED)

I’m really glad the last significant piece of content in the last chapter is the story from Manya, because if there’s any message I want to send you off with, it’s this:

To be effective, any behavior-change design must be grounded in compassion and empathy and connection with the people you are designing for (or with).

We’ve spent a lot of time in this book on models, processes, and categorizations. And I do believe those things are useful tools, and I hope they are helpful. But if I gave you the idea that behavior change is just a formula to implement, then I’ve failed you.

People are complex, and behavior is complex, so any tool or model should only be a starting place and should ...

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