Survey #1 Test Results

Well its been well over a week since I posted the first usability survey for fellow graphic designers to do and I am very impressed with the results! I had 23 participants with 85.7% of the test subjects understanding creative commons as it is meant to be, 81.0% believing it is a positive step for art and 78% agreeing they would use a site that is a centralized content sharing and open source resource.

Overall the test showed that females in there 20's and 30's are already utilising a lot of the available resources and have been into graphic design for less than 10 years which I believe to be a direct correlation with the digitization of the industry.

I immediately wish I had of also asked if any of the contributors to the survey  use open source resources professionally, afterall, the aim is to allow this for all resources on my proposed website. Its little late to backtrack now so I found some other surveys which other people have already done. Henley (2011) did a great one last year:

Very interesting to see the majority persons from my survey (20-40, less than 10 years experience in the industry) all seem to charge between the £250 - £300 per day they spend which is the higher end of the charging scale.

I am going to do another survey because I really do feel like I need to establish if the subjects do graphic design professionally and if they can become more competitive by reducing their rates when they have access to my website.