You Should Participate In Wristly’s ‘User Intelligence Research Project’

If you haven’t noticed, the Apple-oriented tech community’s recent attention has been all over what the Apple Watch means, and why or why not you need or don’t need one, and how or how not to use one, and why or why not someone else might or might not understand why or why not you need or don’t need one … noticing a trend yet?

That’s not to say I’m not guilty of it, of course!

Anyway, if empirical, quantifiable data is more up your alley when it comes to answering such questions, you may find what Wristly is doing to be particularly interesting.

The newly launched website claims to be conducting a “user intelligence research project” where any Apple Watch owner can sign up to participate. The program is run by sending out an email to those enrolled once a week where all they have to do is answer five questions.

A number of insights have already been shared by Wristly through weekly reports, which are only available to those who sign up for the time being. For example, in the second report released, it was determined that 39 percent of the 59 participants would recommend Apple Watch to someone else, 36 percent like it for themselves but would not say it’s a “must have,” and the remaining 25 percent would not recommend it.

The same report also mentions that 80 percent of participants say they’ve fine-tuned their notification settings to reduce distracting wrist taps.

One caveat at the moment is that, again, the only way to see the full reports is to sign up. But it’s a double-edged sword, since it definitely doesn’t hurt to contribute. You can sign up on Wristly.co if you’re interested. I know I am.