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PoliticalTest.fyi

PoliticalTest.fyi is a private political values quiz built on scenario questions about real trade-offs rather than party slogans. It is for anyone who wants to see where their principles land across six dimensions, with no account or email required.

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Type
Web app
Year
2026
My role
Design and development
Status
Live
PoliticalTest.fyi homepage: Beyond the label headline and a Find my alignment button beside a tilted four-quadrant political atlas card with a green sticky note
PoliticalTest.fyi homepage on a phone: Beyond the label headline, a Find my alignment button, and a No account, no email note above the atlas card

The brief

I wanted a quiz that asks about concrete choices instead of party labels, then shows the result as a map and a six-dimension profile rather than a single verdict. It also had to point out where someone’s stated principles and policy answers conflict, and keep every answer in the browser.

What I built

  • Scenario questionnaire with a 30-question short route and a 60-question full route, per-question importance weights, and a path that carries short-route answers into the full version
  • Documented scoring model: weighted, normalized scores on six axes compared with 36 editorial reference points, with coverage rules before any match is shown
  • Original vector political atlas plotting economic ownership against political authority, plus a methodology page and sourced context notes for the scenarios
  • Consistency review with seven optional principle checks that flags direct conflicts between a stated rule and a policy answer, then lets people revise, qualify, or leave them
  • Optional identity step that compares a chosen tradition with the answer-based result on the map and every dimension
  • Browser-only design: progress stays in the current browser session, with no server storing answers and no cookies, plus an export file the user controls
  • Versioned question content, so returning users revisit only the answers a change affects
  • 77 unit tests for scoring, question integrity, consistency rules, identity, and session migration, plus end-to-end browser tests

Details worth a look

Political atlas page: A world of ideas headline, a four-quadrant map dotted with schools of thought, and a searchable list starting with Classical liberalism

Detail 01

The atlas page lets people explore 36 schools of thought on a two-axis map or search them by name, family, or idea.

The whole page

Homepage, 1440px wide

PoliticalTest.fyi homepage, full-length capture

Showing the top of the page. See the whole thing on politicaltest.fyi.

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