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but I'm not alone.

Over 2.5 billion people have smartphones now, and a lot of them are having a hard time putting them down.

There's a new app that aims to curb phone addiction.

Addiction is money.

Are we a nation of smartphone addicts?The problem is, our devices are designed to keep us engaged.

They're intentionally addicting.

But if you understand the tricks that grab your attention, you can learn to have a healthier relationship with your phone.

I think we're living inside of two billion Truman Shows.

Where, you know, Truman Show, you wake up and everything is sort of coordinated just for you.

And you really don't even realize it, but it's coordinating just to entertain you, or just to engage you.

That's Tristan Harris, he worked as Google's design ethicist, and now he runs a nonprofit initiative called Time Well Spent, advocating for awareness of how tech companies profit off of users' attention.

It's not designed to help us, it's just designed to keep us hooked.

So I handed him my phone and asked him how he'd fix it.

It starts with turning off all notifications, except for when a real human is trying to reach you.

When you get a call, a text, or a message, it's usually because another person wants to communicate with you, but a lot of today's apps simulate the feeling of that kind of social interaction, to get you to spend more time on their platform.

If Facebook sends you a push notification that a friend is interested in an event near you, they're essentially acting like a puppet master, leveraging your desire for social connections so that you use the app more.

But notifications didn't always work like this.

When push notifications were first introduced for email on Blackberries in 2003, they were actually seen as a way for you to check your phone less.

You could easily see emails as they came in, so you didn't have to repeatedly open your phone to refresh an inbox.

But today you can get notifications from any app on your phone.

So, every time you check it, you get this grab bag of notifications that can make you feel a broad variety of emotions.

If it wasn't for random, if it was predictably bad or predictably good, then you would not get addicted.

The predictability would take out the addictiveness.

And, it's effective.

Slot machines make more money in the US than baseball, movies, and theme parks combined and they become addicting about 3-4 times faster than other kinds of gambling.

Some apps even replicate the process of pulling a slot machine lever with the "pull to refresh" feature.

That's a conscious design choice.

Those apps are usually capable of continuously updating content, but the pull action provides an addicting illusion of control over that process.

In the future, we might see healthier ways of delivering notifications.

Research shows that bundling notifications, where phones deliver a batch of updates at set times, reduces user stress.

Then, you have to grayscale your screen.

The easiest way to attract your eye's attention on a screen is through color.

Human eyes are sensitive to warm colors.

In eye-tracking tests like this one, they gravitate particularly to bright red.

That's why so many apps have redesigned their icons to be brighter, bolder, and warmer over the years.

It's also why notification bubbles are red.

A little icon like this, or this, doesn't have the same impact on your attention as this.

But you can neutralize that distracting effect by selecting a greyscale color filter in your phone's accessibility settings.

When you make everything black and white, your brain isn't tricked into thinking that this is any more important to you than this.

I mean, there's a reason why slot machines are bright and color and flashing lights and ding ding ding ding ding.

They have the sensory input too, right.

And so, just noticing that if I take out the color, it changes some of the addictiveness.

Finally, restrict your home screen to everyday tools.

Make sure that your home screen, when you unlock it, doesn't have anything except for the in-the-moment tools that help you live your life.

I have Lyft, to get somewhere when I need to get somewhere, Maps, Calendar.

None of these are apps that I can fall into and then get sucked down some bottomless vortex of stuff.

If you're not sure what counts as a bottomless vortex of stuff, it helps to filter out apps that use infinite scrolling.

Unlike pagination, where users have to click to load new content on another page, infinite scrolling continuously loads new material so there's no built-in endpoint.

Video autoplay works in a similar way.

These interfaces create a frictionless experience, but they also create a user's sense of control and make it harder to stop.

Research shows that people rely on visual cues more than internal cues to stop consuming something.

In a 2005 study, individuals who ate soup out of a self-refilling bowl, ate 73% more than those who ate out of a normal bowl filled up by servers.

But those who ate from the self-refilling bowl, didn't feel any more satisfied.

So, a visual cue, like an endpoint, is better at telling you the right time to stop than your own sense of satisfaction.

And because so many apps don't have an endpoint, you have to build your home screen around the eventuality of distraction.

We check our phones a lot.

Most of us drastically underestimate how often we do so.

But technology might not always look this way.

There are ideas for alternative interfaces that give you functional choices and are more transparent about how much time you'll lose with one action, versus another.

But it's a really deep philosophical question: what is genuinely worth your attention?

On an interruptive basis?

Do people even know how to answer that question?

It's a really hard question, it's not something we think about.

But, for now, it's a question that everybody needs to start asking.

Thank you so much for watching, this has been episode 1 of By Design, this is gonna be a new series looking at different topics in design, in technology, looking at how human decisions on one end of creating something affect people on the other end.

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Этот урок разговорной практики уровня B2 построен на видео «It’s not you. Phones are designed to be addicting». Чаще всего повторяются слова: app, notification, ding, screen, color. В этом видео 65 предложений и 1060 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 5:41. Говорящий говорит быстро, около 187 слов в минуту, поэтому звуки часто сливаются и сокращаются. Только 79% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка, поэтому лексика сложная.

Ключевая лексика этого видео

Самые сложные слова из видео (15), с произношением и значением:

Слово	Произношение	Значение
notification существительное	/ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/	уведомле́ние, оповеще́ние
addict существительное	/ˈæd.ɪkt/	зави́симый, зави́симая
endpoint существительное		конец промежутка
slot существительное	/slɑt/	щель, отве́рстие
bottomless прилагательное	/ˈbatəmlɪs/	бездо́нный
refill существительное	/ˈɹiː.fɪl/	доба́вка
vortex существительное	/ˈvɔɹtɛks/	водоворо́т, вихрь
refresh глагол	/ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/	освежа́ть, обновля́ть
cue существительное	/kju/	намёк, сигна́л
coordinate глагол	/koʊˈɔɹ.dəˌneɪt/	координи́ровать, скоордини́ровать
scroll существительное	/skɹoʊl/	сви́ток
continuously наречие	/kənˈtɪnjuəsli/	непреры́вно, постоя́нно
smartphone существительное	/ˈsmɑɹtfoʊn/	смартфо́н
interface существительное	/ˈɪn(t)ɚˌfeɪs/	интерфе́йс
addiction существительное	/əˈdɪkˌʃən/	зави́симость, адди́кция

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

Слово	Произношение	Значение
take out глагол		вынима́ть, вы́нуть
fill up глагол		заполня́ть, запо́лнить
turn off глагол		выключа́ть, вы́ключить
wake up глагол	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	просыпа́ться, просну́ться

Грамматика в этом видео

Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:

Конструкция	В видео
Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает	are designed · were actually seen · isn't tricked
Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас	have redesigned · has been
Придаточные определительные who / which + предложение — уточнение о человеке или предмете	those who ate

Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание

Говорящий использует 17 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например didn't, doesn't, don't. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.

Звуки «sh» и «zh»: notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/, addiction /əˈdɪkˌʃən/, pagination /ˌpæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, distraction /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/
Длинные слова — следите за ударением: notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, predictably /pɹəˈdɪk.tə.bli/, coordinate /koʊˈɔɹ.dəˌneɪt/, continuously /kənˈtɪnjuəsli/, eventuality /ɪˌvɛntjuˈælɪti/

Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:

Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: neutralize /ˈnutɹəˌlaɪz/, curb /kɝb/, leverage /ˈlɛv.(ə.)ɹɪd͡ʒ/

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Прослушайте всё видео один раз молча и выпишите незнакомые слова.
Начните со скорости 0,75×, повторяйте предложение за предложением и вернитесь к обычной скорости, когда станет легко.
Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как notification, addict, endpoint.

Что такое техника Shadowing?

Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.

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