Design Blog: August 2008 - Design Blog

ALA Survey

A List Apart are running their 2008 survey for people who make websites. I took it and so should you :)

The results of last year's survey (1.7Mb PDF) makes good reading. From my own perspective it's interesting to see that the majority of the 2007 survey's respondents were:

mainly developers (I class myself as a web designer)
younger than me
educated to a higher degree
working for MUCH bigger companies
only recently into blogging
mostly getting excited by the web design field
working less hours
fairly "green" in the web industry
not having as much holiday
earning less but getting pay rises

It's also funny how the writer/editor role had the greatest proportion amongst female respondents; 41.6% of females were writer/editors with the next nearest job title being usability/consultant/lead at 24.7% So maybe the girls are better writers. Their weakest field was that of developer.

Interesting reading indeed.

Labels: survey