habit

The classroom without a pocket

Phone bans are not a morality play. They are a mixed empirical literature about attention, equity, and what a developing control system is asked to practise.

Nou Heravi

Habit is not a feature — it is a capture strategy

Product teams celebrate retention. Psychologists study habit. When those languages blur, design starts optimising for compulsion while calling it care.

Nou Heravi

What you click becomes what you seem to want

Personalisation is not only convenience. Over time it shapes what feels familiar — often without a reflective decision.

Attention is not a UX metric — it is public health

If attention is the substrate of learning and self-control, design that harvests it is not only a taste. It is an exposure. The size of the effect is still argued; the frame is not empty.