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Sam Stone

Sam Stone is currently the Director of Product Management for Pricing and Machine Learning at Opendoor, a real estate technology company that uses algorithms to buy and sell homes instantly, saving homeowners the hassle and uncertainty of the traditional home sale process. Prior to Opendoor, he was a co-founder and Product Manager at Ansaro, a SaaS startup using data science to improve the fairness of enterprise hiring processes. Earlier in his career, Sam worked at genomics software startup SolveBio, investment firm TPG, and consulting firm Bain & Company. He holds degrees in Math and International Relations from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard.

Constraints & Helping Users Make Better Decisions

  • Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

Constraints are essential to good product design. Here is how to use them in order to help users make better long-term decisions.

Article by Sam Stone
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Constraints & Helping Users Make Better Decisions
  • Constraints are crucial and important for good product design.
  • The author explores 4 digital products with constraints that cause users short-term dissatisfaction, but help users make better long-term decisions:
    • Lever: The Group-Think Constraint
    • Wordle: The Binging Constraint
    • Vanguard: The Gambling Constraint
    • Dropbox Paper: The Tweaking Constraint
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