Anyone heard of Quirkos?

Posted by Dr Dan
Nov 15, 2014 at 10:02 AM

>Nevertheless, if you don’t mind me saying so, those “luggage labels”
>seem to be taking up a fair bit of screen real estate (when compared to
>let’s say what they’d look in Nvivo, e.g.
>http://drandus.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/nvivo_codes.png ). Also, at
>first sight I missed that the list was indented, as the indentation is
>rather slight.

Thanks, that’s some really useful feedback - I’ll look into making that more obvious, and a bit tighter. However, Quirkos will display multiple columns in that view, side-by-side, so you should be able to see far more codes at once than you would on Nvivo…

>It looks like the design favours touch screens? Personally I prefer to
>use a desktop PC with keyboard and mouse when working with large data
>sets with hundred plus codes, and in those situations I find that the
>more of a list is visible on the screen, the better.

Yes, the design (and files) are the same for tablets and desktop computers, so it’s always a familiar interface - but it’s very much proper desktop software too - there are keyboard short-cuts for coding for example, and it stretches really well across two screens for true power users!

Thanks so much for you feedback, keep it coming, I’m always looking for improvements we can make.

Daniel