Comments | buster: Help me with Big Checkin?

buster

Help me with Big Checkin?

Dec 22, 2009 00:22

I started thinking about how to best reflect on the year, and the decade, as I do every year. And every year I am dissatisfied with what's available. Reflection works best when it can build on reflections from the past, year over year, etc. We are changing, slowly, over time, in ways that none of us can really tell from up close ( Read more... )

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j_u_d_i December 22 2009, 16:59:51 UTC

I tried it out, and I think overall it's really good. I feel like most memes (year-end or not) have at least a few completely stupid questions, and yours definitely avoids this.

a few comments:
1) in the first attribute list, you have "Lazy" twice
2) it would be nice to have a completion meter or some indication of where you are in the survey and how much is left.
3) because of people's paranoia about facebook these days, it might be good to put some disclaimers around how the data will be stored, etc.
4) for the questions that have multiple answers, it might be helpful to have a the choices be "Save & Continue" or "Save & Add Another" so it's more explicit what's happening.

Overall, it's really great -- thanks for sharing it with us.

smapple December 22 2009, 18:53:41 UTC

I agree with all of these things!

buster December 30 2009, 21:13:39 UTC

1) Okay, fixed, thanks!
2) Yes, I'll add that for sure.
3) Good point.
4) Another good point!

Thanks for the help!

anonymous December 22 2009, 21:06:59 UTC

Hi! I was trying to upload pictures, but they kept showing up sideways. Is that my problem, or something you can fix?

More l8r.

buster December 30 2009, 21:14:28 UTC

Hm... are they sideways on your computer before you upload them? I'm not auto-rotating them or anything so that's really weird... let me know if you think I should look into it more.

Adding people to Inner Circle... bostonsteamer December 22 2009, 22:45:24 UTC

...was time-consuming. It would be easier to have 10 blanks, and then the ability to add details in a subsequent step.

So far so good, though. I might add more comments as I progress.

Re: Adding people to Inner Circle... bostonsteamer December 23 2009, 07:02:56 UTC

Finished the survey. It was really sluggish, that's my only complaint. (Other than the stuff above from Judi Underscores)

If that fancy font js is slowing the page down, I'd take it out, it's not worth it.

This was way better than the Best 09 stuff we're doing.

Re: Adding people to Inner Circle... buster December 30 2009, 21:15:42 UTC

Time-consuming because of the page loads? I'll be making them ajax soon enough (maybe not before the end of the year, but before next year for sure). I'll consider adding a more text boxes but I also don't want to pressure people into adding more answers than they want to.

Re: Adding people to Inner Circle... bostonsteamer December 30 2009, 22:22:20 UTC

Yes, it's because of the page loads. Maybe you can have a + icon that adds more boxes (w/o an asynch round trip)

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