Evaluate and rank related concepts on a scale
Use this tier list template to evaluate and rank concepts or ideas with a team. You can use a custom tier list as either an icebreaker activity to warm up a team, or as a prioritization method for many different ideas.
A tier list is a visual ranking system that helps teams prioritize, categorize, and evaluate items, ideas, or concepts. Each item is placed in a specific tier, ranging from the highest (S-tier) to the lowest (F-tier) based on its importance, quality, or relevance.
While most tier list makers aren’t too complicated, these steps can help you get started with your team.
Whether you’re prioritizing ideas from a brainstorming session, or just running a quick icebreaker with your team, define the category of the items you’ll be evaluating. For an icebreaker activity, choose a category where your team has a base level of familiarity.
For example, this could be fast food restaurants, cereal varieties, popular tv shows, NFL teams, or even video games. A common use for tier lists is to rank animated tv shows (anime, for the uninitiated).
If you don’t already have the ideas or items you want to rank, start adding them to the blank tier list canvas. You can add online images and thumbnails, gifs, imported media, or sticky notes to symbolize what you’re evaluating.
Start adding your items to the tier list with Mural’s simple drag-and-drop features. You can always shift items around, so just start adding ideas now and move them around later.
After you’ve ranked your items on the tier list, start making note of what items ranked in the highest tiers.
Once consensus is reached, finalize the tier list and use it as a guide for decision-making, task prioritization, of project planning.
Now that you’ve prioritized your items, share your tier list with other team members and compare, or export the tier list as a png to save the image.
A tier list is a visual ranking system that helps teams prioritize, categorize, and evaluate items, ideas, or concepts. Each item is placed in a specific tier, ranging from the highest (S-tier) to the lowest (F-tier) based on its importance, quality, or relevance.
The ranking system in a tier list is a visual representation that categorizes items, ideas, or concepts into different tiers based on their relative quality, importance, or relevance. Each tier is assigned a letter grade, typically starting from "S" (the highest tier) and descending through "A," "B," "C," and so on, with "F" typically being the lowest tier. The precise letter grades used can vary depending on the context and the creator's preference. Here's how the ranking system in a tier list works:
Tier lists originate from video game culture, where characters from a given video game are evaluated and ranked based on subjective qualities, such as viability in competitive settings. Tier lists are often used to evaluate characters or playable factions from League of Legends, Super Smash Bros., and Pokemon, for example.
The highest rank on a tier list is typically labeled as "S" tier. This category is reserved for the top-performing items, features, or choices that are considered superior in effectiveness or quality compared to all other options. In the context of the Mural Tier List template, items placed in the "S" tier represent the best possible selections within the specific criteria or category being evaluated.
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