How it was One day Dima came with a proposal: "I want to make a reward in achievements - a custom app icon. Should I draw it myself or set…

How it was One day Dima came with a proposal: "I want to make a reward in achievements - a custom app icon. Should I draw it myself or set a task for the communication designers?" It became clear that this could be fun. And not only for Zvuk designers. We made a contest. While discussing the contest, it became clear that a proper contest is a contest with money. Babki ne problema How did we choose? We chose with the heart! We had 7 people choosing. Art directors and Dima. And there was a desire to revive such a forgotten procedure: "Democracy." This is when everyone's opinion is taken into account, and the decision is made by majority vote. We created a procedure consisting of three stages. 1. Emotional choice - an unlimited-by-number-of-votes act of voting. The goal of this stage is to form a shortlist. 2. We repeat a similar process of emotional selection for the shortlist, already with a restriction: six vote-chips that can be given to a work. 3. The stage - Grounding. As we know, the best democracy is the one guided by an iron hand! We discussed and understood that our professional sympathies do not show up in anonymous chip distribution. Because then first place goes not to the work that has more strength, but to the one that has more chips. We performed the voting procedure again. Creating chips with different voting-power values. This way it was possible to show which works we wanted to highlight most strongly. The final decision: mathematical. We counted the total weight of the distributed chips. What is beautiful about such a "democratic" procedure is that we level out the opinion and biases of one person. Receiving a diverse spectrum of opinions, based on different experience, taste, and different attitudes toward what graphics can be.