4. “If behaviour is your outcome and
science is your process, you’re a
behavioural scientist. No PhD
required.”
matt wallaert
author, start at the end
chief behavioural officer, clover health
5. ‘Are you a behavioural scientist?’
*laughs nervously
‘No, I’m (kind of) a service designer, I just find this really interesting.’
‘Well then, you’re a behavioural designer, you just don’t know it yet.’
warwick behavioural science summit
2019
lauren kelly
https://behaviour.studio
6. behavioural psychology
• the study of the effects of psychological, cognitive, emotional, cultural and social
factors on the decisions of individuals and institutions
• discovering patterns in actions and behaviour
7. behavioural economics
• the study of the effects of psychological, cognitive, emotional, cultural and social
factors on the economic decisions of individuals and institutions
• how those decisions vary from those implied by classical economic theory
8. evolution of behavioural economics
1955
Bounded Rationality
Herbet Simon the idea
that humans are not
consistently rational
1979
Prospect Theory
Amos Tversky +
Daniel Kahneman
people think in terms
of expected utility
relative to a
reference point (e.g.
current wealth) rather
than absolute
outcomes
1994
Harvard
first Behavior
Economics professor
hired
2006
Stumbling on
Happines
Daniel Gilbert
1988
Studies on how
behaviours
impact economic
decisions
Hersh Shefrin &
Richard Thaler
1999
Quarterly Journal
of Economics
dedicated an entire
issue to behavioral
economics
2008
Predictably
Irrational
Dan Ariely
Nudge
Cass Sunstein
Richard Thale
Behavioural
Insights Grou
founded
10. the brain
• we like to think we are rational beings, making well thought out,
considered decisions
• however, in order to respond quickly to situations, we have evolved to
make and use mental shortcuts that bypass considered decision
making
• these are called cognitive biases or heuristics
11. cognitive baises /
heuristics
there are 188 well-documented biases split into 3 areas
• decision-making, belief, and behavioural biases
• social biases
• memory errors and biases
15. nudging
• indirect suggestive actions and positive
reinforcement can nudge people’s decision
making processes
• often more effective than direct instruction,
legislation or enforcement
16. framing
• how choices can be put across in a way that
highlights positive, negative or unexpected
aspects of the same decision
• choice architecture
17. norms
• how other people act and behave around us
strongly influences our own behaviour
• BIT tested adding a notice that most people
pay their taxes on time to letters sent from
HMRC, payment rates increased
significantly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_Insights_Team
18. defaults
• thinking has a cognitive load, so
when people are recommended an
option, or are told that it’s the go to /
default option they often take the
path of least resistance
19. scarcity
• people value things more highly when they
believe those items to be rare or a scarce
resource
21. behavioural service design
• service / experience design informed by behaviour change science
• analyses conscious and subconscious influences
• designed and measured based on the positive impact on people
or the business
22. problem space
(lean)
• identify business insight / problem
• define users
• journey map ‘as is’ journey - behaviour maps
- pain points
- decision points
- behavioural pressures
- inhibitory cues (reasons not to do something)
- promotion cues (reasons to do something)
23. solution space
• ideate behavioural levers
- behaviour scenarios
- choice architecture and other levers
- ethics check
• prototype using inhibitory and promotional levers
• multiple realtime users tests
• iterate designs
26. dan ariely are we in control of our own decisions?
https://www.ted.com
rory sutherland behavioural economics
https://www.42courses.com
cass sunstein + richard thaler - nudge theory
https://yalebooks.co.uk
matt wallaert - start at the end
https://www.mattwallaert.com
susan weinschenk - 100 things every designer needs to know about people (voices that matter)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Weinschenk
https://behaviour.studio
https://www.behavioraleconomics.com