The design looks nice, and conveys the purpose of the site really well. Well done!
Some of the copy on the front page could probably do with a revision. The use of capitals when describing the focus of a test seems odd and is a little inconsistent (coffee, Meditation, breakfast, Sex). There is a typo in the 'Create your own' section.
Most of the copy reads really well, but the overall feel of it distracted me for some reason. Perhaps I just need another coffee! Love to see what metrics you pull out - do you intend to publish the data and analysis, and if so in what formats?
After some digging I was able to find this quote:
"Quantified Mind is a volunteer project, and we'd love extra help with development, web design, test design, and gathering participants for Quantified-Self-style studies."
It's not 100% clear to me what is the driving force behind Quantified Mind, and that is something I would love to know. Is it just interested hackers building tools? Who is funding it?
In any case, it's a very interesting concept, congrats on the launch.
ps: I can't navigate to the home page from the bottom navigation bar. On a long page (eg 'Science') this meant I had to scroll to the top to get back.
pps: If you have a public repository of your code base you should add a link to it so people can start helping more easily.
Thanks for the detailed feedback. Typos and the links definitely need fixing - we'll get on that after the traffic dies down.
We definitely plan on publishing the metrics, and there's some cool discoveries that have already been made. Check out Nick Winter's talk here for some examples of some of the interesting things he figured out with just an n=1 experiment: http://blog.quantified-mind.com/2012/08/05/21/
The driving force is a bit mixed. Nobodies funding it, we all just help out because we really think there needs to be something like this out there. The real core science behind the testing is Yoni Donner's thesis at Stanford, and he's the founder and lead developer ... the rest of us are just helping get it out on the web.
Actually, this has nothing to do right now with my Stanford research. I do computational biology for my PhD, not psychology. I built Quantified Mind because I want to discover effective ways to boost cognitive abilities and slow down age-related cognitive decline, and I did not find any existing tools that are sufficiently precise and give me the kind of access I want to the data. It's all about doing science and making discoveries about the associations between our actions and our cognition.
Some of the copy on the front page could probably do with a revision. The use of capitals when describing the focus of a test seems odd and is a little inconsistent (coffee, Meditation, breakfast, Sex). There is a typo in the 'Create your own' section.
Most of the copy reads really well, but the overall feel of it distracted me for some reason. Perhaps I just need another coffee! Love to see what metrics you pull out - do you intend to publish the data and analysis, and if so in what formats?
After some digging I was able to find this quote:
"Quantified Mind is a volunteer project, and we'd love extra help with development, web design, test design, and gathering participants for Quantified-Self-style studies."
It's not 100% clear to me what is the driving force behind Quantified Mind, and that is something I would love to know. Is it just interested hackers building tools? Who is funding it?
In any case, it's a very interesting concept, congrats on the launch.
ps: I can't navigate to the home page from the bottom navigation bar. On a long page (eg 'Science') this meant I had to scroll to the top to get back.
pps: If you have a public repository of your code base you should add a link to it so people can start helping more easily.