Still not sure whom to vote for? Here is my decision matrix. Feel free to give your opinion…

Why us? Read the Top Ten Reasons to use Dezidr.

There are a couple of new Features for you in October:

• A new Start Page helps to get an overview of the most recent and popular options
• A new Show Option Page summarizes all important information for a given option
• RSS Feeds are available to monitor specific options and all newly added options
• Polls are directly available from the View Page

If you have questions or feedback, let us know!

Decisions get better when they are exchanged and discussed with friends. Therefore, dezidr.com now allows you to

• Create polls to let friends give their feedback on your decision
• Give you an overview of the aggregated feedback of your friends
• Allow you to embed your decisions or your polls in your own web-page

Some major improvements in the user interface should also help you to make your decisions more easily than ever.  Be rational and have fun!

“All I’m saying is if you’ve got a tough decision, thinking about it is better than hoping some magical unconscious thing will solve it for you”

Some interesting links with findings on Decision Making:

• Time: Gut Decisions May Not Be Smart
• Huffington Post: Too Many Choices: How To Be Satisfied With Your Decisions
• Physorg: Complex Decision? Don’t sleep on it!

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After several months of testing and reiterating on the overall functionality and design, dezidr.com goes into the beta-phase. The layout of the page has been reworked, the navigation menu uses tabs, fonts and colors have been made consistent. The layout has been tested against the most common browsers (Firefox 2.x, Safari 3.1 and IE7) and been validated against strict XHTML. A style sheet has been added to get also reasonable output when printing out data. We included a privacy statement to provide you details about how your data is stored and used by dezidr.com.

The new release includes a couple of bug-fixes:

• Strange characters in localized resources
• Error when searching for unknown option
• Redirection from www.dezidr.com to unvalid URL
• Changing weight and rating not protected with hash
• Proposing options showed the same results
• Options and criterions could be become too long

In the next weeks, we plan to improve the overall system performance and get insights about how our users work with Dezidr and what they expect for the next versions. We hope to see you soon on dezidr.com and would be happy to get feedback from you.

The physiological toll of multitasking and why we may not be making rational decisions even when we think we are.

Dezidr.com is a simple tool that helps you making decisions. You can compare different options and evaluate them against specific criterions. The concept behind is called Decision Matrix and is used all over the world mainly by managers and decision makers.

I sometimes used it and thought it would be nice to implement it as a web-application and such open up the tool to everybody. A first version is ready now. Just try it out, have some fun, and tell me what you think of it.

This Blog aims to give additional information on dezidr.com and serve as communication tool. Feel free to ask, request, and critizize!