Robert Cialdini’s 7 principles of persuasion are reciprocity, commitment and consistency, social proof, authority, liking, scarcity, and unity. They are the bedrock of persuasive UX design, and they work because they’re mental shortcuts hardwired by evolution to keep our ancestors alive

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Describe an option as a gain, and people play it safe; describe the same option as a loss, and they gamble. No presentation is frame-free, so pick the frame that maximizes comprehension, and audit your funnels for frames that merely maximize clicks. Every screen is a framing device. Yours included.

Users don’t choose the best option; they choose the first satisfactory one, and then they stop looking. This behavior, called satisficing, decides which link gets clicked, which default survives, and which of your features nobody ever sees. Design so that the first plausible option is also the correct option, and the lazy click becomes the right click.