[Theforum] moving ahead with the survey

[Madhu Menon]

At 04:02 AM 11/15/2001, you wrote:
>What I'd like to do is:
>
>         - get the grammer, spelling, syntax nailed down.

You mean the "grammar" ? or is that hack0r speak too? ;)

Yeah, I'll help out with that. Could we start by removing the exclamation 
marks from words like "poor" and "excellent"? Exclamation marks are so 
often misused... :(

>So, before we get sidetracked on to many other issues and ideas here - as
>we're famous for - anyone have final opinions or suggestions?

lists.evolt.org -

- Question 2 does not compute. You could rate one list as "excellent" and 
another as "poor". This question needs you to "average" out the ratings, 
leading to wrong results.

- Question 5 should have a textarea for filling in more than one mailing list.


Other

- I wasn't even aware of the directory till a few weeks back. There are 
probably others who'll go "huh? what directory?" We need a "not aware of 
feature" type of choice

- ditto for browser archive


Demographics

- No choices for:

Usability
Information Architecture
Content creation
(yes Virginia, people actually do these things :)

- We need a distinction between "tools" and "skills". "Logo design" is a 
skill, "Photoshop" is a tool (though you can be skilled at Photoshop ;)

- "Font Identification / Selection" should be "typography"

- The "miscellaneous" section is very vague. There should probably be a 
"system administration" section.

Essentially, I think we need to split the demographics into "Front-end 
tools", "Back-end technologies", "Special skills", and perhaps "Job 
profile". Without thinking too much of it, these is the IA I can think of. 
Javier? Martin? I'll work a bit more on this and let you know if I can 
think of anything better.

Aren't we collecting age/country info? Perhaps company size too? These are 
fairly non-invasive questions, IMHO.

Sorry, hadn't been paying much attention to the survey thread till now.

Madhu
PS: I think computerjobs.com had a decent IA for skills, etc. Let me check 
there.

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