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Lift

If you’re already falling behind on all those new year’s resolutions, Lift might be just the ticket for you. Backed by Obvious (an incubator created by Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams) Lift is created by Jon Crosby and Tony Stubbleline (who, between them, count Path, CrowdVine and Odeo as past achievements). As Lift’s site summarises neatly:

Lift is a simple way to achieve any goal, track your progress, and get the support of your friends.

The process is simple: identify good habits (choose from popular habits or invent your own); track your performance (a simple checkbox ticks off your progress); and chart your progress… Lift takes care of the heavy lifting and creates some lovely visualisations to help keep you motivated and on track.

As one of Lift’s testimonials neatly summarises it: “Lift is a sticker chart for the iPhone age.” Better still it’s free.

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In addition to their role as lecturers in interactive design at the University of Ulster at Belfast, where they have been active in promoting a web standards-based curriculum, Christopher Murphy and Nicklas Persson are practicing designers and digital artists. Their work has featured in a variety of design books and magazines alongside numerous internationally respected designers and they are regular speakers at design conferences and workshops worldwide.

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