Learn Behavioral Economics and Consumer Psychology

Behavioral Design Bootcamp

Learn the skills we've taught to these companies:

  • Google
  • Intuit
  • Aetna
  • Lyft
  • Kiva
  • Anthem
  • The World Bank

This course has enlightened me about analyzing user behaviors, plus theories & strategies to induce behavioral changes.

ELISE JIANG
Product Manager, Visa

Strengthen Your Expertise in Behavioral Economics

In this 8 week on-demand online bootcamp, you’ll learn at your own pace, discovering how to use behavioral economics to boost KPIs, enhance customer experience, and build more robust and effective products from the ground up.

In addition to course modules, you’ll interact with other participants and Irrational Labs team members in our slack community, office hours, and other live events for bootcamp participants. You’ll share what you learn with fellow course participants and get feedback on your work.

I feel like we’ve been given a pair of X-Ray glasses to see a hidden world driving user behavior. These insights and tools will shape how we build experiences for the foreseeable future.

Ryan Murphy
Director of User Experience, Indeed

Connect with others in the Behavioral Economics community

Kickoff video chat

Monthly Office Hours

Slack Community

What you'll learn:

Actionable insights for leveraging behavioral science
The “3B framework” for behavior change (used by companies like Google and Facebook)
When and how to conduct smart experiments
The top psychological biases impacting you (and your customers)
Tools, like a behavioral diagnosis, to identify where your efforts will make the greatest impact
How to ethically -- and often drastically -- increase your conversion and retention rates

I learned invaluable lessons and insights that I can apply immediately, both professionally and personally.

Rajul
Sr Product Marketing Manager

The Curriculum

Designed by behavioral science experts at Irrational Labs, alongside behavioral designers from top Silicon Valley companies.

Session
01

Why behavioral economics is a shortcut for product design and marketing

Session
02

Foundational principles of behavioral economics that will fundamentally reshape your thinking

Session
03

The Behavioral Design Process: the 3-step method to design products that actually drive behavior change

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04

The most important (and least understood) step in behavior change: Defining a ‘key behavior’

Session
05

The 3B framework for change: a simple, powerful way to understand your customer’s psychology

Session
06

How to reduce cognitive overload in your customer flows

Session
07

It’s all relative. How relativity drives our purchase decisions

Session
08

How to get someone’s attention and keep it (ethically)

Session
09

How to leverage the ‘endowment effect’ in your onboarding flow

Session
10

Benefits: Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons

Session
11

Smart ways to keep customers engaged (a deep dive on ‘concrete-ness’ and ‘identifiable victim’)

Session
12

Everyone else is doing it: The impact of Social Norms

Session
13

Designing for incentives … and the mistakes most people make

Session
14

Pricing 101: How to convey your product’s value

Session
15

Mental Models: How to shape your customer’s narrative (great for new products and startups!)

Session
16

The Behavioral Design Process: Experimentation

Bonus
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What next? Becoming a Behavioral Scientist

Join us and learn the psychology of decision-making.

What Past Attendees Say:

Understanding the psychologies behind why people make decisions has been invaluable. Familiarity with behavior science is a must-have skill for all PMs.

Mathias Frese
Product Manager, Twitter

“Working with Irrational Labs has been eye-opening in the best kind of way — we learned how to use behavioral design in a creative, yet structured way to drive meaningful impact for our members and for Credit Karma.”

Satyen Motiani
Senior PM, Credit Karma

Much more than an introduction. I left armed with great ideas to make improvements in my work.

Ben Tingey
Innovation Manager, Atrium Health

This course gave me an entirely different perspective into how we make decisions, and gave me the tools to develop superior user experiences applicable to multiple situations of life and business.

Luis Carlos Sanchez

I loved this course. Now I have the vocabulary and research to more easy tell others at my company why we should change what we are doing.

Chelsey Paulsen
Sr. Technical Product Manager, Asurion

I’m sending my entire company to Bootcamp! We now have a framework, resources and data to formalize behavioral science into all of our strategies.

Jen Neumann
de Novo

This course is a game-changer. It gave me the tools for understanding people in more meaningful ways.

David Morera
Expat Buddy

As a Product Manager with years of experience building products that impact behaviors, this course gave me the framework and structure I have been missing in my everyday work.

Brody Clemer
Richardson Sales Performance

This course is worth the time and investment. Time flew by and I didn’t want it to end! I learned invaluable lessons and insights that I can apply immediately.

Maegan Anders
Bowie Capital Management

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I feel like we’ve been given a pair of X-Ray glasses to see a hidden world driving user behavior. These insights and tools will shape how we build experiences for the foreseeable future.

Ryan Murphy
Indeed

Behavioral Design Bootcamp Online Course

$480

Includes

Monthly office hours
Access to our Slack community
Certificate of completion

Custom Courses

Private, customized courses for your team are also available, starting at $3,000 per person (must meet minimum number of participants).