Survs

Just to let you guys know that xSort (our other product) is now a free product.

xSort is a free card sorting application for Mac OS X aimed at user experience professionals and social scientists.

So jump to xSort web site and grab your copy!

From now on you can invite unregistered users to your Survs’s accounts!

Survs was built with collaborative work in mind, and inviting your teammates to join your account is just the first step towards working together with them.

Soon we will write about other collaborative features, but for now let’s focus on the account concept.

Picture this: you have an account shared with some of your colleagues at work and, at the same time, you have another account where you create surveys for the parent-teacher association you belong to. With Survs you can have a different account for different projects and still use the same credentials to login.

To allow for some control over who can do what inside an account, you can assign one or more roles to each account member.

There are 6 different roles:

• Viewer (the voyeur, can watch but can’t play)
• Editor (the builder, can create and edit surveys)
• Distributor (the bridge with your respondents, can create and open channels to collect responses)
• Analyzer (the analytics guy, can analyze, share, export and print results)
• Manager (the master helper, can do management tasks)
• Owner (the master of all roles, can do everything)

We think these roles contemplate the majority of usage scenarios, but we are expecting your feedback to let us know if we are on the right track.

Have fun using Survs!