A few times over the last couple of years I’ve wanted to do an open poll to get a feel for how users felt about things, particularly icons during the design process. I found there aren’t a lot of affordable ways to do this.

What I wanted was a way to upload multiple images and get ranked-choice voting on them. If you’re not familiar, ranked voting is a system where voters rank their choices in order of preference, and then an algorithm is used to determine the winner. So your second choice vote doesn’t get lost if your first choice doesn’t win — it becomes part of the aggregate. It’s the way US elections should be run1.

So I built RNKD. I took a morning away from working on Marked 3 to build it, but that’s all it took. It’s not a complicated beast, just does what it says on the tin. Sign in with an email address, create a poll by uploading images and adding optional captions, then share the link to the poll. Voters don’t need to log in, and anyone with the link can vote. Share it with your team, your friends, or your whole social network. Voting is anonymous.

There’s currently no mechanism to prevent the same person from voting multiple times, which I should probably build in sooner than later if this is going to be used seriously. But assuming everyone voting isn’t intentionally trying to rig the game, it works great as is.

Here’s a demo poll: RNKD Logo Options

You can sign in and create your own polls at https://rnkd.xyz.

I’m making it free (and accepting donations). If you use it for anything profitable, please consider clicking the “Buy me a coffee” link. And let me know what thoughts you have on it any time!

  1. And adding more than two parties. That and doing away with the Electoral College would be a good start. But I digress. ↩