Hey Julie, huge fan of your articles on Medium!

When it comes to making internal design decisions and gathering feedback, how do you strike the balance between using raw data compared to a designer's intuition?

Let me try and break it down.

63% is the equivalent of saying 63/100, 0.63 and displaying a 63px bar in a 100px tall histogram. Percentages have the same weighting in terms of usefulness as a histogram, but they are displayed visually. As you probably already know, recruiters don't spend much time reading pages of paragraphs of text on a resume. Charts (derived from tabular data) are much more easier, compact and faster to digest than rows and columns of text.

Unless you want to get philosophical, displaying skills quickly and accurately on a 1 page resume is extremely difficult. In fact, displaying anything accurately on a resume is a challenge. That's why companies have interviews so that they can make sure candidates prove what they state on their resume is accurate via the company's own standards.

On a typical resume, most people would state that they are skilled/experienced/proficient/knowledgeable/trained/ in a app or skill such as CSS. But what does that even mean? Experienced relative to what? Are they stating that they are experienced with writing the syntax or that they are experienced with solving real problems using CSS? CSS is useless by itself. How skilled are they relative to HTML or JS? Knowing the syntax and solving problems are 2 different things. That's why it's recommended to practice coding rather than read it when learning as you gain experience through trial and error and dedication.

There are so many ways to interpret the same thing. 63% is no more vague than writing the word 'experienced'. Plus I was trying to do something different :) I created a social infographic that displayed the average number of a skill based on the user's ranking and their colleagues ranking as explained below:

• Dustin's CSS rank: 7/10
• Colleague 1 rank on Dustin's CSS: 6/10
• Colleague 2 rank on Dustin's CSS: 8/10
• Average total rank: 7/10 | 0.7 | 70/100 | 70px/100px

If there is a better solution for displaying your skills accurately in the smallest amount of space and in the shortest amount of time...please do let me know. Also, 63% is a ranking number. Google PageRank and Facebook EdgeRank do the exact same thing when showing relevant content.

Related Links:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?- v=NxkTAvXOvqs&list=UU8WWCdgzLRMdQKGIEPWjBSQ
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

Infographics:

• http://vizualize.me/
• http://uk.pinterest.com/giveagradago/creative-cv-inspiration/
• http://uk.pinterest.com/webrecruit/visual-cv-gallery/
• http://uk.pinterest.com/rtkrum/infographic-visual-resumes/

I use the GhostStand by Twelve North. Sturdy but can not be reassembled.

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/HD138ZM/A/twelve-south-ghoststand-desktop-platform-for-macbook

You're welcome, anytime!

You can receive useful feedback from the Dribbble community if you ask explicitly.

Alternatively there's Forrst (http://forrst.com/) and Hunie (http://hunie.co/).

@Adham - The scrolling is awesome! It has 2 settings, regular scroll (clicks) and hyper-fast scrolling (smooth). You can alternate between the two by pressing the o/o button just behind the wheel.

The Logitech Performance MX mouse has pixel precision and I find it to be extremely ergonomic. It just gels in your hand.

It's a Walnut computer desk made by Piranha. Smooth as silk, check it out here: http://amzn.to/1hgkbWc

Here's mine:

• Maxed out Macbook Pro 15" Retina
• Twelve South GhostStand
• 27" Thunderbolt Display
• Wireless Keyboard
• Logitech Performance MX Mouse