Coaching practices for Phone Home Screen Design

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• The first thing I see every time I unlock is a wall of icons begging to be opened, and I land in a feed before I even remember why I picked the phone up
• My thumb opens Instagram before I’ve even decided to
• I unlock my phone to do one quick thing and my thumb has already tapped the app before my brain catches up
• I unlock my phone for one thing and the bright little red dots and glossy feeds just suck me in before I’ve decided anything
• My thumb finds the same two apps and opens them before I even know I picked up the phone

Practices that may help

1. Redesign your home screen as a tool, not a feed
   Your home screen should contain only task-completion tools — nothing whose primary function is to pull you in.
   Grayscale Phone Mode and Behavioral Design
2. Remove social and entertainment app icons from the home screen
   Move high-pull apps off the home screen so opening them requires a deliberate search rather than a tap.
   Notification Detox
3. Remove all social and news triggers from your home screen
   Make the highest-capture apps invisible on your phone’s first screen — requiring deliberate navigation to reach them.
   Defending Your Attention in the Attention Economy
4. Enable grayscale display mode on your phone
   Turn your phone screen to black and white — this reduces the visual reward signal that drives compulsive checking.
   Grayscale Phone Mode and Behavioral Design
5. Increase friction on high-capture apps
   Add steps between you and the apps most likely to capture you — every additional tap reduces automatic use.
   Grayscale Phone Mode and Behavioral Design
6. Audit and remove default-installed apps you never chose
   Uninstall or disable every pre-installed app you did not actively choose — they are cues you did not consent to.
   Grayscale Phone Mode and Behavioral Design
7. Use a dumb-phone or phone-free period during a defined daily window
   Designate a daily window during which your smartphone is replaced by a basic phone or put away entirely.
   Grayscale Phone Mode and Behavioral Design
8. Designate a charging station at the entry point of your home
   Place a charger by the front door and make it your phone’s default resting place when you arrive home.
   The Phone Foyer Method
9. Audit and redesign your digital environment
   Your phone and computer are designed by engineers optimizing for your attention — audit them as you would a physical space.
   Environment Design for Behavior Change
10. Conduct a device audit: one use case, one device
    Map every use case you currently use your phone for and ask: could a single-purpose device do this better?
    Single-Purpose Devices

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