what's a choicebox?

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Choiceboxing is a method that helps people make important decisions by

• identifying the options they have in a given situation,
• identifying the factors that may make some options better than others,
• specifying the relative importance of those factors in the overall decision,
• entering ratings to indicate the relative goodness of the options on each factor, and
• seeing how the options ‘stack up’ when the ratings and weights are combined.

A choicebox is a way to portray and work on a decision, with options, factors, perspectives, weights, and other aspects shown in a geometric visualization of row, columns, and layers.

Choiceboxer is a tool that helps people use the choiceboxing method, individually or in groups. It helps by

• providing an easy mechanism for creating, editing, saving, and retrieving choiceboxes;
• allowing you to enter ratings and weights and see the overall scores of options (and thus how they rank);
• optionally displaying weights and scores as differently sized graphical boxes rather than numbers;
• allowing you to share a box with others, for viewing and/or editing;
• allowing you to set up more than one ‘perspective’ layer in a box, each with its own weights and ratings, and each optionally edited by a different person;
• showing combined scores across such multiple perspectives, e.g. for a group decision.

Choiceboxer.com is a website at which the Choiceboxer tool is available. To use it, register and login.