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 * TripleTake is a free, collaborative, behavior design pattern library.

Introduction
TripleTake emerged from a concern with the knowledge disparity between creators and users of products and services, as well as the gap between intended use of products and their actual impact on behavior. At one time religion and law directed our everyday actions. However, today some of us are at least as equally influenced by the tools we use to navigate the world. These tools are rapidly changing, vying for an increasingly competitive position in front of our eyes and beneath our fingertips. Therefor the mechanisms used to win and maintain that position are becoming more sophisticated. TripleTake is an effort to make visible the interactions that influence our behavior.

TripleTake is a free, collaborative, behavior design pattern library. TripleTake catalogues the entire user lifecycle of products and services from first encounter, through use, to termination, and all the triggers in between. TripleTake is industry agnostic, therefor examples are drawn from politics, conservation, health and wellness, disease care, productivity, purchasing, law, etc. While many of the patterns exist in technology, anything within the designed world is fair game.

These patterns are not principles. Principles connote best practices: a right way of doing things. TripleTake is a first step toward formulating principles. TripleTake provides an open platform for creating a shared language for existing patterns so that we can engage in an objective evaluation of their efficacy and integrity.

Intended Audience
TripleTake is intended for designers, life hackers, and curious people interested in understanding and creating products and systems that change behavior.

Primary engagement
Primary engagement is the most common mode of interaction with a product or service, and is almost so obvious it is not worth mentioning. It means simply deliberating using a product with either partial or full attention.

Peer-reporting
Peer-reporting involves a second party participating on behalf of a primary user.

Direct surveillance
Direct surveillance is when a product directly gathers information on a user while the user is not interacting with the product.

Third-party surveillance
Permission surveillance is a type of interaction in which a user gives a product access to monitor activity with another product.

Lottery
Inconsistent

Trigger
Triggers prompt users to engage with a product or service.

Mapping
Literal mapping, black box mapping and everything in between

Environmental Triggers
These are triggers existing in the environment. If you are a smoker, perhaps finishing a meal is a trigger to light up. Waking up in the morning may be a trigger to reach for your iphone. Environmental triggers are coded into the very texture of our lives and exist independent of direct control by the user or the product/service.

Commitment Device
Today is Monday, July 29.