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Results comparison

The whole result screen, redrawn with a friend's answers laid over yours.

Decision: ⚪ idea

Design: Figma

Context

Available for a friend only - see comparison modes. An orientation has no result of its own to lay over anything, so this view is what a paired identifier buys.

Every module carrying a friend's overlay

How it behaves:

  • Nothing new is drawn - every module keeps its layout and gains an overlay, because the universal axis already knows how to carry a second value.
  • Hatching plus an avatar - the friend's position is marked on the same track, with the hatching running forward or back depending on whether they are ahead or behind.
  • The map takes two dots - on the Nolan chart the friend appears as a second, marked position in whichever quadrant they landed in.
  • Badges carry their face - in traits a shared trait shows the friend's avatar, and one only they earned is drawn hatched.
  • The agreement score stays on screen - see agreement info, so the headline number is visible however far the taker scrolls.
  • One direction at a time - the screen belongs to the taker, and the friend is the overlay, not a second column.

Opportunity

  • This is the argument people came for - two results side by side is the reason a link gets sent at all.
  • It costs one overlay, not a second screen - every existing module gains comparison at once.
  • Difference is where the axes finally make sense - a taker learns what an axis measures by seeing someone else land elsewhere on it.
  • It is repeatable - the same result can be compared against a different friend the same day, which nothing else on the screen offers.

Risk

  • We are showing one person another person's politics - the identifier was pasted willingly, but the overlay is still someone's sensitive data rendered on a stranger's device.
  • A comparison invites a verdict - two dots on a map imply one of them is better placed, and the product has no way to say that neither is.
  • Overlays crowd small screens - every bar now carries two values, an avatar and hatching, on a phone.
  • The friend's result ages - it is a snapshot from whenever they took the quiz, and nothing on screen says how old it is.
  • Difference can end friendships - the product's most social feature is also its most divisive, and the copy around it cannot pretend otherwise.