simplify your digital life,
break free from addictive designs,
redesign devices to serve your needs.
There are hundreds of digital focus tools & notification settings to help you get the digital life you want.
The ReDD Workshop makes it effortless to find and implement the right ones for you.
university & high school students & staff served since 2019
For students & academics, knowledge workers, and parents.
The ReDD Workshop makes it easy to achieve the digital life you want, thanks to letters from your past self, hands-on support in our Help! Café, and data-driven insights into your personal journey.
“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is specifically your own” — Bruce Lee
See what people sayLetters from your past self
Hands-on support
Data-driven insights
The strategies you learn in the ReDD Workshop are based on our analyses of 550+ digital focus tools, 54,000+ user reviews, and 250+ interviews.
The workshop format is based on continuous learning from 180+ workshops at 10+ universities & high schools, and best practices in behaviour change.
Join our next public workshop.
Equip yourself with the skills you need to manage digital distraction.
Have us deliver the workshop at your institution.
Run ReDD Workshops yourself via our 2-day facilitator training.
The ReDD Workshop is based on our decade of academic research into the psychology of digital distraction and how digital focus tools can help. Some key papers are shown below. For a more complete picture, see Dr Ulrik Lyngs‘ website.
May 2024 | ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Best paper honourable mention (top 5%)
Ulrik Lyngs, Kai Lukoff, Petr Slovak, Michael Inzlicht, Maureen Freed, Hannah Andrews, Claudine Tinsman, Laura Csuka, Lize Alberts, Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello, Guido Makransky, Kasper Hornbæk, Max Van Kleek, Nigel Shadbolt
Oct 2022 | International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Ulrik Lyngs, Kai Lukoff, Laura Csuka, Petr Slovak, Max Van Kleek, Nigel Shadbolt
Oct 2024 | Conference
We presented our work on the ReDD workshop in Danish high schools at the NordiCHI conference
Oct 2024 | Research talk
Dr Ulrik Lyngs gave a talk about our work to Amy Orben’s Digital Mental Health group at the University of Cambridge
Jun 2024 | Impact Award
Dr Ulrik Lyngs won Oxford University‘s MPLS Early Career Social Impact Award for our work on the ReDD workshop
May 2023 | Research grant
UKRI‘s Impact Acceleration Account research grant awarded to Sir Nigel Shadbolt & Dr Ulrik Lyngs to enable UK-wide impact of the ReDD workshop
Oct 2024 | Podcast (Danish)
Dr Ulrik Lyngs was on the Brainstorm podcast by videnskab.dk, Hvorfor har jeg så svært ved at lægge min mobil væk? (Why do I have such a hard time putting away my phone?).
Mar 2024 | Podcast
Dr Ulrik Lyngs was on episode #8 of the Mokhm Singh Show.
Nov 2023 | Interview
Dr Ulrik Lyngs interviewed by the Canadian magazine Healthy Debate for the article ‘“Everything is at stake here”: Startups aim to break addictions to social media’.
May 2023 | Interview
Dr Ulrik Lyngs interviewed by Danish newspaper Jyllandsposten for the article “Fem digitale tricks, der hjælper dig med at få styr på dit digitale liv” (Five digital tricks that help you get your digital life sorted).
Psychotherapist &
mental health consultant
Former Deputy Head of Counselling at the University of Oxford
Computer scientist &
cognitive psychologist
Research Fellow at the University of Oxford
Head of the Human Centred Computing group, University of Oxford
Head of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Santa Clara University
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the Department of Informatics, King’s College London
Human-Centred Computing Section, University of Copenhagen
Leader of the RegTech4AI project at Maastricht University's Law & Tech Lab
PhD candidate, University of Oxford & research affiliate at MIT Media Lab
Director of Learning and Consultancy at the Open Data Institute
Human-Centered AI Research Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute