the evaluation or assessment of something, in terms of quality, quantity or some combination of both
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The best practices for a rating bar/slider/buttons
I need to make a rating scale input device that satisfies the following requirements:
1) Each value must be associated with a number to the user.
2) It must be immediately clear that this thing ...
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How to rate symmetry
I'm designing an interface where the user needs to rate the symmetry of 2 objects.
The ratings are:
1 means not symmetric and 5 means very symmetric.
Currently, it has a star rating. However, the ...
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Indicate mixed good and bad rating
I have an app that allows users to self-evaluate decisions. At the most basic level, events will be marked positively and/or negatively indicating whether the decisions were good or bad.
For ...
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Pattern for user reviews in Android? [closed]
I have seen this question in stackoverflow and it is useful for me but I think that question must be asked here, so I copy it's contents and paste below.
Really I need an interesting pattern for ...
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Social rating tool
I'm thinking of adding a like/favourite feature on my project but I'm currently finding it hard to choose a suitable social rating tool. I've spent days trying to think of an innovative rating tool, ...
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Stopping people abusing star rating systems
I want to implement a 5 star rating system for particular articles on my site. But, I know that with a little bit of scripting, it can be easy for hackers to abuse these systems. However, I want it to ...
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Is it ok to incorporate engine-calculation and user-improvements-votes into one relevancy grade?
Our product provides search functionality as well as profile viewing. Each profile is assigned with engine-calculated tags, with a relevancy score. Example: Profile JohnDoe is assigned the tag UX with ...
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Should a limited number of votes be represented with buttons or tokens?
I'm working on a website on which each character of a cartoon has a score, and the user can choose a given fixed number of characters to "hurt" and to "heal" (a user can only hurt so many characters ...
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How to display “Helpful” rate in the result page?
I am designing a website with many support articles.
Each article can be rated in the following way:
Was this article helpful to you? Yes | No
Meaning, my information is for example:
21 out of 50 ...
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Yelp Like Adjective Rating System
I am building a website that has users list their outdoor adventures (skydiving, surfing, base jumping, etc) and the other people can comment on them.
I want to have a rating system like Yelp which ...
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How can I design a matrix that allows users to rate items in two or more categories?
Does anyone know a good way to show a double matrix question? For example where you need to rate stuff in 2 categorie!s (or more). Ive attached an example of what we came up with so far. The problem ...
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Rating or Grading on touch devices (smartphones/tablets)
"tap to rate" vs "scroll to rate"
There are apps and webapps that implement the "tap to rate" approach (display a number of stars, icons or grades and let the user tap on the desired value) and there ...
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Can a page rating with feedback be more effective than a longer usability survey for identifying problem areas?
Our government website has thousands of informational pages, many online self-service task flows and 20+ content editors / stakeholder groups. In the past, periodic usability surveys have been ...
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Ratings: 3 stars vs 5 stars. Why 5?
It's the most common interface used to display votes is the “star rating system,” in which a particular number of points (often expressed as stars) is assigned to an item by each reviewer. We find ...
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The influence of ratings on search result ranking
Our product provides a search functionality. Search results are ordered by rank.
We also provide the possibility to rate the different search results: a user can (optionally) give each result a ...
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Custom rating slider
I have made a custom interface object to handle user rating in a take-away app I am currently building.
But I am not sure if it's intuitive enough in its form.
Q : Would you understand an object ...
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Rating Corporate Content
Does anyone have experience with using user ratings in an intranet context? Using systems like SE or Reddit do that encourage users to post high quality content and identify content that is not ...
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Rating control for iPhone world
Some time ago I implemented inline rating control for iPhone applications:
It has configurable amount of stars (depends on the app) and optional clear button (at the most right). The control works ...
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Why is the “dislike” button going into extinction?
I've noticed that Facebook and now Google+ only have a "Like" (or +1) button, in spite of users wanting a "Dislike" button. This seems to be a bit of trend. Disqus also dropped their dislike vote - ...
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Product Ratings: Do no ratings hurt worse than negative ratings?
We just implemented product reviews onto our site. There's a serious lack of reviews obviously and we believe it's really hurting our sales since we haven't made any other big changes. Our sales were ...
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Votes (star rating) usage - stars or smiles?
I need to make a voting field for my feedback form.
I make an assumption then when you use stars images user easily will use lower ratings, and when you use smiles(faces) with :) for good vote(5) and ...
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What's a good icon to represent how difficult a task is to do? [closed]
I am working on an application where users get to rate various things. In one category, they are rating how "good" something is, and so I put together a little 1-5 rating system with star icons, like ...
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What are the ramifications of removing voting down (thumbs down)?
Remember when Youtube removed their 5-star rating system in favor of their current thumbs up/down system? From their statistics, they concluded that because there were too many choices, people ended ...
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Rate vs Like/Dislike
I'm writing a web page that will allow people to rate "objects". I was thinking of giving users the classical 5 star rating... but then I remembered the like/dislike approach and how YouTube changed ...
