Let us guide you to effective, evidence-based solutions to simplify digital life, break free from addictive designs, and redesign devices to serve your needs.
Backed by our 10+ years of award-winning research.
+58%
better ability to focus
1.5+ hours/day
saved time (get back 23 days of your life each year)
There are hundreds of digital focus tools that can create the digital life you want. We make it effortless to find and implement the right ones.
The Reduce Digital Distraction Workshop helps you to:
Identify your digital challenges and goals
Discover digital focus tools and strategies tailored to your needs
Apply the strategies that work best for your lifestyle
Comprehensive way to articulate needs and find tailored solutions. Reflect, explore & implement, & get personalised follow-ups.
Deadline-oriented crash course in the digital focus tools that are essential when you need to be your most productive self.
Hide addictive features on websites & apps (YouTube Shorts, Insta Reels...)
Use blocking tools to eliminate distractions during prime work or leisure hours
Use computer-based 2-factor authentication, so you can put your phone away
Add delays when you open apps like TikTok to avoid mindless use
... and much more!
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
Letters from your past self
Hands-on support
Data-driven insights
The ReDD Workshop and its tools are based on our analyses of (so far) 550+ digital focus tools, 54,000+ user reviews, and 250+ interviews, and our decades of experience building open-source software used by 130,000+ people around the world.
The workshop format is based on continuous learning from 250+ workshops at 20+ universities, schools, and organisations, and best practices in behaviour change.
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In May 2019, Dr Ulrik Lyngs & Maureen Freed gathered 8 students in a dusty seminar room at an Oxford college with a bold mission: to help them regain control over their digital lives. What began as Ulrik‘s PhD research into digital distraction was evolving into the ReDD Workshop, a practical intervention to empower anyone to tailor their devices for productivity, wellbeing, and a balanced life.
From those humble beginnings, the ReDD Project grew organically through word-of-mouth and genuine need. We refined our approach through 250+ workshops, and published rigorous research showing that it works. Today, any institution can train their own facilitators, enabling anyone to redesign digital life to meet their needs.
Pilot workshop in 2024 at Sheffield Hallam University, UK
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
Associate Professor at Section for Cognitive Systems, Technical University of Denmark
