Posts Tagged ‘projects’

• Fri, Jun 18 2010

  Comments. Influence. Go.

  By jess at 6:25 pm

  Starting with Product 49, we will be awarding influence for “influential comments”. What makes a comment “influential” you ask? Happy to explain.

  
  

  

  
  

  The Word on Comment Influence (care of the Quirky Design Staff)

  - Consider comment influence a “badge of honor.” It will be earned sporadically and will only be awarded for comments with substantial direct effect on the outcome of the design.

  - Comment influence will only be awarded for comments made on winning submissions for a particular phase.

  - If there does happen to be more than one post with similar influence-earning content, the earliest post will receive the comment influence.

  - If you see that someone in your thread has earned comment influence, please be respectful and don’t try to claim that you deserve it too.

  - Influence-earning potential will vary from project to project, depending on the number of voters, the amount of rating influence distributed, the number of influential comments selected, etc. etc. The maximum amount of influence you can earn from a comment is 25 percent of the total share allotted to that project.

  
  

  As with any new feature roll out, there are bound to be questions and concerns with the initial implementation. We welcome your feedback!

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• Thu, Apr 29 2010

  Why Aren’t Projects Visible And Accessible Right Away?

  By nikki at 3:23 pm

  Hey Quirks,

  As some of you have noticed, there is sometimes a short lag time between when one project ends and the next one is launched. We know you are curious as to why this might be so I figured it was time to share some insight.

  I can assure you it’s not because we are out to lunch or taking coffee breaks (unfortunately we don’t really take many of those while at the HQ) but it is simply because we are reviewing/discussing ALL the submissions and community votes/comments to ensure we make the best decision for each and every project.

  Please bear with us if you see these slight delays. We promise that we’ll be selecting the winner(s) as soon as we can.

  Also, one thing we will work toward doing in the future (and you can see that we have started it for the Gym Carry naming project) is updating you with a current design brief after the ID phase is over.

  In other words, after the ID phase has ended and winner(s) are selected, we will do our best to add descriptive briefs to the project desciption boxes when projects launch. We will include info like:

  – Here is what we currently know about the industrial design of this product.

  – Here is what we are still investigating about the industrial design of this product.

  – And here is what we need from you all in the mean time.

  Often the “here is what we need” will be your brilliant naming suggestions, but in some cases it might be a different project, maybe ID round 2, maybe product research round 2, etc.

  Bottom lines:

  1. Trust that we are working to move projects along as fast as we can – there is a lot that goes into every decision.

  2. We will do our very best to inform the community of our current “design briefs” so that you can use this info when submitting your names/taglines/logos.

  We think this will work to help you all in your submissions and in turn help our products be even more awesome.

  As always, hit us up with questions about any of this and we will continue to do our best to move projects along as speedily as possible!

  On an unrelated note, how sad? Double scoop of gelato slid right off my cone last night after lick 1.

  

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