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Samuel Coby Anderson
Samuel Coby Anderson

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Jul 22, 2019

Coby’s iOS App Portfolio

My first experience with product is through engineering. I’ve been making apps in Swift since 2015. I’ve worked freelancing full-stack iOS apps from the ground up. I’ve also contributed to enormous corporate iOS code bases. Below are some of my personal projects, all 100% built by me. 1. Tinder Sparks View full Project…

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Coby’s iOS App Portfolio
Coby’s iOS App Portfolio

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Published in Swipe Smart

·Apr 17, 2019

Lost Links for the Data-Lovers

I want to share some of my favorite data-driven posts from the lost OkTrends blog of OkCupid, written by Christian Rudder. If you love this blog, you’ll love these posts too: Profile Pictures and Perception The Mathematics Of Beauty Don’t Be Ugly By Accident! We Experiment On Human Beings! Racial Preferences The REAL ‘Stuff White People Like’ Race and Attraction, 2009–2014 What People Say vs. Who They Are

Dating

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Lost Links for the Data-Lovers
Lost Links for the Data-Lovers
Dating

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Published in Swipe Smart

·Mar 1, 2019

Why We Swipe the Wrong Way

Ever swiped “no” too fast and lost a potential match? How about swiped “yes” only to later realize you really weren’t ever that interested? Think about the situations under which you make these mistakes. Were you swiping really quickly? Were you swiping while tired or distracted? While it makes intuitive…

Dating

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Why We Swipe the Wrong Way
Why We Swipe the Wrong Way
Dating

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Published in Swipe Smart

·Feb 9, 2019

Why We Should Meet Our Matches Offline, ASAP

Think about your first messages on dating apps. Do you send more first messages to people you perceive as more attractive than yourself, or to people you perceive as less attractive than yourself? Most people do the former, but it may be better for you to try the latter. Stick…

Dating

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Why We Should Meet Our Matches Offline, ASAP
Why We Should Meet Our Matches Offline, ASAP
Dating

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Published in Swipe Smart

·Jan 26, 2019

Why We Don’t Message Our Matches

Have you ever felt frustrated enough with not getting matches to just swipe yes on every profile and think about it later? How about so overwhelmed with the amount of people willing to match with you that you start to swipe no on even the tiniest of flaws? If you…

Tinder

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Why We Don’t Message Our Matches
Why We Don’t Message Our Matches
Tinder

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Jan 25, 2019

Tinder Sparks: New Feature Design Process

This is a project done for my Human Computer Interaction class at Minerva, born from my interest in designing better spaces for people to meet and interact online. This post is documentation of my research as well as my iterative design and testing process. Background and Research Online dating has long since lost…

Dating

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Tinder Sparks: New Feature Design Process
Tinder Sparks: New Feature Design Process
Dating

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Apr 24, 2016

Minerva Chronicles: Writing the Unwritten

There’s something seductive about learning hard skills. It feels really great to add that new coding skill, business experience, or personal project to one’s resume. It’s funny when I look back at my resume and reflect on each thing written. Sure it’s changed quite a lot, no longer boasting ACT…

Life Lessons

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Minerva Chronicles: Writing the Unwritten
Minerva Chronicles: Writing the Unwritten
Life Lessons

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Published in Mad Frisco

·Apr 23, 2016

A Stroll Down Powell

Plunging out of the door and down the front steps of the 851 dorms, I step into the sunlight for the first time all day. The brightness is intense, especially after a weary-eyed morning of taking classes from my room. My headphones blast upbeat pop as I turn down the…

San Francisco

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San Francisco

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Published in Student Voices

·Feb 25, 2016

What I Learned from Explaining at the Exploratorium

Being an Explainer is probably the best minimum wage job ever. You’re paid to play around with a bunch of guests in a museum where touching the exhibits is encouraged. Adorning their bright orange vests, Explainers are the friendly face of the museum, there to help guests explore. At the…

Exploratorium

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What I Learned from Explaining at the Exploratorium
What I Learned from Explaining at the Exploratorium
Exploratorium

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Jan 1, 2016

Minerva Chronicles: Half of the Beginning

My time in San Francisco is about half of what it was at the beginning of this semester. To condense the past four months of adventure in San Francisco into just a few paragraphs would be impossible, so I’ll let the pictures show a bit of that. I’ll focus instead…

Education Reform

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Minerva Chronicles: Half of the Beginning
Minerva Chronicles: Half of the Beginning
Education Reform

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