Open Ideo Design Quotient

= a metric developed by Open Ideo to measure design contributions

Description

Massimo Menichinelli:

"They especially paid attention to the problem of metrics: how do we measure collaboration, the work of every participant and the state of the community? I will return on this issue in the future, since it’s critical for the development of Open Design and any open projects (and therefore of Open P2P Design, that enables them). For the moment, the approach of OpenIDEO is an interesting case:

- The Design Quotient (DQ) is a measure of your contributions to OpenIDEO. It corresponds to how active you are in the inspiration, concepting, and evaluation phases of a challenge. It also measures your collaboration, increasing every time you comment or build on other people’s inspirations and concepts. When you take part in a challenge, you build up your DQ by accruing points. A DQ can help to publicly identify your design expertise and strengths. Maybe you’re excellent at providing inspiration that shapes the conversation, or you’re great at building off of others’ ideas. Share it with your friends, colleagues, teachers, and even potential employers to give them some insight into what you’re best at.

(http://www.openp2pdesign.org/2011/open-design/open-design-is-going-mainstream-now-first-part/)