When i tried to google design books around this concept all i found were books and how to keep users addicted. Let’s not care about peoples well being, let’s just get them hooked 🙄 
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This was one of the books I had to read when I worked in digital marketing. Great design is addicting. But bad design makes people rip their hair out. Find a balance. You can reduce fomo by giving us a popular now feed. I usually find myself switching to primal because it saves where I stopped scrolling last. But I use damus for posting or notifications. 
@jb55 There are some good books about those topics that don’t involve getting people addicted.
Donald Norman’s books are usually very nice, some examples:
- The design of everyday things
- Things that make us smart
In terms of designing for calmness, it brings to mind this concept developed at Xerox PARC called “calm technology”: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rudolph/Teaching/weiser.pdf
Yuck! I wouldn’t trust the “Top 10” lists for this haha. I have some recs tho if you fancy —
2010s: Design for Behavior Change, Designing with the Mind in Mind.
2020s: Design Justice, Ruined by Design
Hope this helps!
How about these books instead? 
And the author of the book is a jew! How typical!
When i tried to google design books around this concept all i found were books and how to keep users addicted. Let’s not care about peoples well being, let’s just get them hooked 🙄
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The knowledge gathered from these books is nicely reusable when you want to become a head of drug cartel...
Check out Universal Principals of Design
You know it's an OG book if usability's in the title
Interesting … the part of the brain highlighted in that graphic is where I identify tension in my body emanating from when I engage in compulsive behavior 🤔