Thaw | Visualizing shared interests
One of the fundamental aspects of Thaw is that it matches you with other people based on your shared interests. In my last shot, I showed how you could fine-tune your interest in something beyond a simple yes/no. While this works great for describing how much you like something, it actually makes it more complicated to match people up.
The problem: people who both rate an interest as 5/5 are clearly well-matched. But what if one person is a 5/5 and the other is a 3/5? Are they matched better than two people who are both a 4/5? What about two people who are a 1/5? Are they matched better than two people who are a 2/5 and 3/5?
The solution I came up with was to display the average between the two people's interest levels using a border around the interest itself. Things at the top of the page you both tend to like, while things at the bottom of the page you tend to dislike?
But what about the cases I mentioned above? You still wouldn't be able to tell the difference between two people rating an interest 4/5 versus one person rating it 3/5 and the other rating it 5/5. Well, when you tap on an interest, the purple border expands two borders, one pink and one blue. Each represent one person's interest.
Now users can scan somebody's interest list to at a glance see what stuff they have in common, but still dive deeper to discover exactly how they stack up against each other.
Thanks for reading!