Comments on: I Took the 2007 Web Design Survey

By: Bruce Stockwell

Bruce Stockwell — Sun, 06 May 2007 07:08:38 +0000

Took the survey, passed it on to friends. Thanks for the heads up.

By: Tim Marshall

Tim Marshall — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:57:44 +0000

Quality extensive survey, will be interested in seeing the results.
Great idea to blog about it Eric as i don’t read A List Apart too often, personally don’t always find their articles that relevant or original unlike this site!

Keep up the brilliant work.

Tim Marshall

By: David Carrington

David Carrington — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:33:35 +0000

I can’t wait to see the results. Handy if there was a little input box to say “e-mail me the results”. Oh well, I’ll have to keep a close eye on everyone’s feeds for a while.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:26:35 +0000

I’m just a hobbyist… working on my own personal site, playing with CSS etc. Should I fill it out? In real life, I’m a network security guy.

By: Trent

Trent — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:16:37 +0000

I thought the survey was well designed…certainly better than Vitamin’s. But these surveys never have a job category for Software Engineer! I chose Software Developer instead, even thought that’s not exactly what I do these days.

By: Niko Neugebauer

Niko Neugebauer — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:01:44 +0000

Nice survey, i will try to spread the word, the results should be very interesting, so we will have an opportunity to know what kind of people are working all around the web.

By: Jim Gallaher

Jim Gallaher — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:12:27 +0000

Just finished my associates in graphic design and looking to go back. I thought the survey was pretty open to people who may only do design on a part time basis.

My favorite question was… Have you ever turned a design job? Yep, lack of money…this friend of friend wanted me to design an advertisement for his small business. I told him I base my price around $25 an hour. He replied that he’s only willing to pay for one hour’s work… Ah, no sorry no can do, it’s going to take more than an hour.

By: WalkingAround » Blog Archive » 2007 Web Design Survey

WalkingAround » Blog Archive » 2007 Web Design Survey — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:25:10 +0000

[...] via Eric Meyer. An interesting set of questions – i’ll be curious to see the results. Oh, and if you leave [...]

By: Rich Wersinger

Rich Wersinger — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:36:45 +0000

Eric,

Thanks so much. I’ll upload that gif to my server tonight. I’ve placed it in my sidebar on my Consider This blog.

I knew I saw the image somewhere, but didn’t grab it before I went on after the thank you page! I’m hoping for one of those trips to An Event Apart! :-)

Cheers,
Rich

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:33:07 +0000

Rich, absolutely do use the graphic. I got it from the "thank you!" page at the end of the survey, and using it to promote and link to the survey its whole intent. (Also, it was designed by Jason Santa Maria, not me.)

By: Peter Hyde-Smith

Peter Hyde-Smith — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:33:38 +0000

Took it last night. No problems with anything buggy.

Mauro – even though web design is mostly a hobby for me, I answered the survey based on doing bits and bobs of design under the guise of disseminating technical information and doing presentations for my regular job.

Cheers,

Peter

By: Lukas

Lukas — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:39:08 +0000

Well, that was fun, I look forward to seeing the census summary when it’s ready. I wonder if this kind of data can help improve our standards of living some how :)

By: Disruptive Library Technology Jester

Disruptive Library Technology Jester — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:44:27 +0000

[...] and former colleague Eric Meyer writes about the 2007 Web Design Survey (first annual) on his blog. It is an effort to “increase knowledge of web design and boost respect for the [...]

By: ant

ant — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:42:43 +0000

I tried it but I couldn’t get past the second question, because the submit button just kept sending me there again. What gives?

By: Rich Wersinger

Rich Wersinger — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:12:46 +0000

Hi Eric,

Thanks for asking and your encouragement!

I did take the survey!

Can I use your “I took and so should you” image on my Web site? It looks great and I think this is an important effort to promote!

Also, there’s a great discussion going over at A List Apart at Discuss: The Web Design Survey, 2007 with suggestions to improve the survey.

Cheers,
Rich