HabitLab aims to help people achieve their goals online (ie, waste less time on Facebook) by trying out different interventions in their browsers and seeing what works best.

We're currently focusing on online behaviors (ie, wasting time on Facebook), but will eventually move towards positive goals and offline goals (ie, do a lesson on Duolingo every day, or walk more steps on your Fitbit).

You can install the HabitLab Chrome Extension at https://habitlab.stanford.edu/ (may have some bugs/issues, if you encounter any please let Geza know)

If you would like to showcase your creativity and design/implementation skills, you can do the following optional design task (this is a good learning opportunity to learn how to make mockups and code in Javascript if you don't already know it).

Neither task is strictly required, though it will strengthen your application, and it gives you an opportunity to have your own creative work integrated into HabitLab (so you're making an actual useful contribution).

Install Habitlab, and look through the set of available interventions. Come up with an intervention that you think would be good to have that we don't currently have - it can help with any of the existing set of online goals (be creative!)

Describe your intervention, and create mockups of this intervention (with whatever tool you'd prefer - keynote, powerpoint, Sketch, html+css, etc, you can even handwrite and scan) and upload your design description and mockup here - you can view your uploaded files here. For examples of what some mockups might look like, see Designs

Implement your intervention! You can access HabitLab's built-in intervention editor at http://habitlab.github.io/to?tag=intervention-editor and see documentation at Writing Interventions.

This feature is new and my documentation could be improved so if you have trouble don't hestitate to ask questions (so I can improve it!), either on Gitter https://gitter.im/habitlab/habitlab or via email. If the intervention you proposed is too complex to implement you're welcome to implement something simpler. Once done upload the Javascript for your intervention here - you can view your uploaded files here