Productivity by Design: Design Your Habits

About This Class

Behavior Design borrows product design techniques from the world’s most innovative companies to change human behavior. In this workshop, we will learn how to apply these techniques to create sustainable habits that support productivity, health, and wellbeing.

Left: Watch a highlight reel of this workshop
Right: Watch the intro video for the online version of this class

In this interactive workshop, we will explore lessons from applied psychology and persuasive technology, including the three main approaches to changing human behavior:

• Preparing your mindset
• Structuring the environment
• Streamlining the action

You will use these techniques to create a personalized behavioral plan for yourself, targeting a new productivity-related habit. We will also discuss Behavior Design in the workplace context, including digital and physical tools, accountability, and follow-through.

Productivity by Design workshop series

This workshop is the second in a three-part series on design-centric productivity, by Tiago Forte of Forte Labs.

Register for the series:

• September 28: Design Thinking Crash Course
• October 5: Design Your Habits (Behavior Design)
• October 12: Design Your Workflow (Workflow Design)

Class Testimonials

“Simple, realistic advice/techniques, yet life-changing and very meaningful. Different approaches to habit forming than I've heard before. Highly recommended.”
- Amy Fuller, Creative Director, FLINT, Inc.

“The class is an incredible walkthrough of every important aspect of making new habits and keeping them. It makes each step simple and concise.”
- MJ Schoen, Producer, Venture Hill Entertainment

“This is a fantastic class! I have been recommending it to all my friends and family, because building habits has been difficult for me since I was a kid, and I have been super successful with this approach.”
- Liza Plotnikova, UX Designer, MINDBODY Inc.

“Brilliant class. Tiago has bundled the latest research into an easy to implement action sequence. I have read all the books on the psychology of habits but have not seen such an actionable template for behavior change as this one. This is a great course that can change your life, because it teaches the template for changing your habits.”
- Thomas Witt, Managing Director, Thomas Witt Consulting

Instructor Bio

Tiago Forte is the founder of Forte Labs, a productivity consultancy and training firm based in San Francisco. He helps organizations envision and prepare for the future of work using a design-centric approach to productivity, including leading companies like Genentech, Fiat Chrysler, Nestle, and the Inter-American Development Bank.