Thanks so much for this feedback, that’s really helpful. I really appreciate you walking through the screens and sharing your thoughts and intuitions on each.
I definitely agree with your points. I should note that this app was made in a few weeks for a narrow population; there are clearly a lot of nice features that would be neat, but take more time. Finding good trade-offs is really important but tricky.
Good recommendations and states before search are one obvious area to improve, but I think would require some significant thought to figure out and implement.
Around when to use this tool, I have my own uses, and am curious to see those of others. I think it has some value now, and hints at a lot more value that could exist with more powerful implementations. I’ve used it in the past to get a sense of “How promising does researcher|institution X seem?” for which doing a quick search for them, and paying a lot of attention to the blurbs, helps a lot.
(Note: If anyone else reading this wants to maintain/improve it, or just make a better version, please go ahead! I expect to be busy on some other things for a while.)
Thanks so much for this feedback, that’s really helpful. I really appreciate you walking through the screens and sharing your thoughts and intuitions on each.
I definitely agree with your points. I should note that this app was made in a few weeks for a narrow population; there are clearly a lot of nice features that would be neat, but take more time. Finding good trade-offs is really important but tricky.
Good recommendations and states before search are one obvious area to improve, but I think would require some significant thought to figure out and implement.
Around when to use this tool, I have my own uses, and am curious to see those of others. I think it has some value now, and hints at a lot more value that could exist with more powerful implementations. I’ve used it in the past to get a sense of “How promising does researcher|institution X seem?” for which doing a quick search for them, and paying a lot of attention to the blurbs, helps a lot.
(Note: If anyone else reading this wants to maintain/improve it, or just make a better version, please go ahead! I expect to be busy on some other things for a while.)