What I learned from reading Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen — Designing for Motivation and Habits | by Bola Owoade | Medium

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I started writing about my lessons from the book Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen in a previous post. You can read that post here. In that previous post, I wrote about the various types of learning gaps which are; For the most part, dealing with knowledge and skills gaps is straightforward (almost). Knowledge gaps require providing someone with the right information and to close a skills gap, learning, and training programmes that are highly experiential and practice-focused are required. Dealing with the other four gaps is not that straightforward. On this let’s learn a bit from Julie. Let’s look at designing for motivation and habits. Part of the aim here is to improve a person’s self-efficacy. Self-efficacy can be described as someone’s belief in their own ability to succeed. Basically, it’s the little engine that could (“I think I can...I think I can...”). Summarily, using practice, good feedback, praising effort, starting with small and easier tasks and role modeling c

5 min read Feb 19, 2024 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash I started writing about my lessons from the book Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen in a previous post. You can read that post here. In that previous post, I wrote about the various types of learning gaps which are; knowledge gaps, skills gaps, habit gaps, motivation gaps, environment gaps, and communication gaps. For the most part, dealing with knowledge and skills gaps is straightforward (almost). Knowledge gaps require providing someone with the right…

What I learned from reading Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen — Designing for Motivation and Habits | by Bola Owoade | Medium

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