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The World's Most Satisfying Checkbox | !Boring Software

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Let's be honest, apps have become boring. A few months ago we set out to build an app to help you build better habits. Secretly, however, we wanted to see if we could transform the most un-fun kind of app (self-improvement) into something deeper and more meaningful. Cut to a few months later, our little app (Not Boring) Habits is on stage accepting the Apple Design Award for Delight & Fun. How’d we do it? Rather than hide the screws, I’d like to pull our app apart and show you how the pieces come together. Let me strip off the sugarcoating and share a little secret about habit tracker apps: they’re little more than a glorified checkbox. The interaction is simple: every day you open the app and hit the checkbox to record a completed habit. While every other habit tracker app makes this basic checking action a common tap or swipe, we knew from experience just how important this moment was. Rewards are important when building or breaking a habit. They help to train our minds to do somethi

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