![]() Having said that, I myself am part of the problem with ratings. I find, though, that I can’t just blindly trust them. The J Curve - Achilles’ heel of Biased RatingsĪs a Product Designer, I try hard to evaluate the products and services I’m working on and ratings are one of my main ways of doing this. To be honest, most of the time, it’s way better just to ask a local person for advice. For example, I never rely on the TripAdvisor recommended top places for a simple reason - when I’m showing friends or guests around my home city, Vilnius, Lithuania, and I want to find a good place to eat, none of my favourites features in the top 10 list that shows up. And we tend to trust some ratings more than others, or at least I do. You want a nice place to stay on your vacation, so you check the reviews of the Airbnb apartment you just found. For instance, you order Uber ride: you rate your driver after your trip, and driver rates you, too! You’re looking for a movie to watch, so you check a movie’s ratings on IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes. However, rating systems are entirely subjective and can, therefore, be inaccurate because they’re not based on data, more on feelings and emotions. The very idea of a sharing economy depends on mutual trust, and ratings are a huge part of that. Gooisoft’s Thortspace software is subject to international copyright law (c) 2008-2020 and also international patent law with Granted Patents in USA, UK, Canada and Hong Kong: GB2494520, US9684426, CA2847602, HK1183135.Watch this funny short video about 5-star ratings from Saturday Night Live (3) process-orientation - thortspace empowers the journey, not just the destination, (2) the creation of chunks of thinking as building blocks that can be used to build thinking structures, (1) experimental multi-perspectival reflection and play, * Thorts can contain images, URL links, and be colour coded in multiple alternative categorizations * Sharing by email, social networking account, or by private link * Linking and association at multiple different levels of structure * 3D associative and linking structures based on spheres * Supports a consistent interface and data sharing across all major operating system platforms and devices. * The product supports a rudimentary implementation of social networking and a newsfeed that allows users to track their own and others contributions across collaborative spheres * The concept of "Journeys" allows a series of viewpoints of maps in the 3D space to be visited sequentially, so as to make something of the form of a presentation * Multiple alternative arrangements of subsets of nodes can be stored and transitioned between ![]() * Paths can be made to connect thort to group, thort to thort, group to group, thort to sphere, group to sphere, sphere to sphere * Map-nodes (called "thorts" in the product) can be associated in groups according to proximity, as well as connected by paths * Maps are structured around the surfaces of one or more spheres which are presented to the user in 3D Thortspace diverges from conventional mind-mapping and concept-mapping software in a number of ways: Beyond 3D mind mapping – reflecting how minds work. 3D visual thinking for creative brainstorming, problem solving, collaborative research and education. ![]()
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