Make Commitment to Friends
UX Best Practices
Making a commitment to friends adds social accountability to behavior change. Public commitments are significantly more effective than private ones because social consequences (embarrassment, letting others down) add motivation.
The power: Breaking a promise to yourself is easy. Breaking a promise to friends is much harder.
Design approach: Enable sharing goals, creating buddy systems, and forming accountability groups.
Quiz
Pass: 3/3 correct1. Public commitments are more effective than private ones because:
2. When designing social commitment features, sharing should be:
3. Which is NOT a social commitment design pattern?