Thanks a ton for these, Jeffrey. I'm building ratings into our site, as well, and one of my challenges is coming up with different ratings for different kinds of people. We have three sets of users on our site - coaches, athletes and fans, and I want to differentiate ratings from coaches and fans (because one may have more "weight" than others in helping an athlete get recruited), so I might use some of your ideas to do this.
Another rating interface I like (tho I've only looked at it a little bit) is RottenTomatoes.com. Thanka =] Bryan http://www.bryanminihan.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeffrey D. Gimzek Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 2:03 AM To: IXDA list Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Your favorite rating interface Kim Asked: >> Anyone seen any interesting rating interfaces lately? I'm especially >> interested in rating of CONTENT on a site (more than an ITEM you >> might buy >> or have bought). > The one currently in use on Amazon product pages is actually pretty > nice. It > breaks down the ratings with bar charts so you can se how many > people rated > something a 5, 4, etc. It adds more meaning to the rating. I am working on a rating site now and let me tell you this is a tough nut to crack ! 1 - 5 stars are ubiquitous for a reason. One scale i really liked was a branded one: this site <http://www.mtbr.com/reviews/Saddle/product_22653.shtml> used chili peppers. I have seen less... socially acceptable scale icons in certain magazines run by Hugh Hefner. Ebay has a nice rating interface on their buyer/seller feedback that allows them to use different Likert scales <http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Likert_scale> with the same graphic 1 - 5 star graphic. ie: Like - Dislike on one scale, Satisified to Unsatisfied on another. the quality and quantity of the data is important - if you rate 5 things from 1-5, is the overall rating a 4 or a 4.5 or a 4.2 or even 4.25 ? how important is that accuracy to your users? Another aspect of rating is "helpful/unhelpful" where 27 helpful vs. 3 unhelpful basically "rate" a post... thumbs up/dn is also used this way. Sites such as Yelp and thefunded.com use this as an addition to rating. We wound with a sort of LCD/LED meter like you see on equalizers, but horizontal. that way we can change the scale: 1 - 5 1.0 - 5.0 1 - 10 0 -100% without really changing the graphic... what that meant however is that we needed a real number next that gives you actual data: 3, 2.5, 7 of 10 etc. sort of like this: || || || || | (4.5) Again, this is a great place to brand your rating to make it unique. hope that all helps you get started ! jd -- Jeff Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.glassdoor.com ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
