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Matt Wallaert in an N of 1

Apr 27, 2015

The failures of user research only with fans

I love talking to people as a way of designing products. At Thrive, I used to put a little note at the bottom of every weekly email that invited users in the New York City area to let me buy them lunch in return for just sitting down and talking about…

Matt Wallaert in an N of 1

Aug 5, 2015

Strange Love or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ring

One of the biggest fights my wife and I ever had was about engagement rings. Specifically, her engagement ring. My position was that engagement rings were gendered (notifying other men that women were sexually…

Matt Wallaert in an N of 1

Jan 21, 2015

Choosing a career, the social psych way

One of the most common questions I get from young people is “How do I know what I want to do with my life?” By which they generally mean “What job should I take?” or “What career should I have?”. And that’s a reasonable question, especially given how important…

Matt Wallaert in an N of 1

Aug 11, 2015

The real winner of Tinder vs Vanity Fair is science education

Recently, Tinder has a public reaction on Twitter to an article in Vanity Fair. The brief gist is that the Vanity Fair writer, Nancy Jo Sales, wrote about Tinder as contributing to a negative hookup culture. Tinder wrote a…

Matt Wallaert in an N of 1

Feb 17, 2015

Why I read fiction

When I was a kid, I rode the bus for an hour and a half to get home because they wouldn’t let an eight-year-old cross rural highways, so I had to go clear to the end of the route and come back. I spent that entire time reading and consequently, as an adult, am an inhumanly fast reader. My…