At Planar Bridge the judges felt reviews would seem less ‘intimidating’/expectating to be lengthy if the default was just
Comments (pre selected drop down)
Empty field for text
(No numerical ranking as default)
Then the buttons up top are “add Strengths/AFIs” “add L3 Qualities” and “add numerical ratings”
The numerical rating hiding was mostly because we’ve been observing a <10% usage rate, but that’s probably worth double checking in the system
When we first set up JudgeApps reviews, we considered just going with one box and no numbers. Ultimately, we decided to implement both quality ratings and the strengths/weaknesses prompts as they gave people some framework for writing a review and distinguishing it from a product or restaurant review (as some judges have never written a performance evaluation before).
I think the best way to keep judges from being intimidated by reviews is just for judges to receive reviews to see that they don’t need to be that comprehensive. This isn’t really a UI problem as much as it is a cultural problem, and the prompts are there to help new reviewers with an outline for a few paragraphs.