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How One Company Redefined Social Norms

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The Psychological Tricks Keeping You Online

Season 4 Episode 31

We take a look at persuasive design – and how good design persuades you every single day. When it comes to technology this can have some pretty big impacts of keeping us hooked to our devices. Should navigating this be your responsibility? Or should we call for more ethical design?

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