Win prizes! – Why do designers fail SURVEY

After a most interesting thread and side e-mails, I’ve developed a survey to more deeply explore the reasons why designers fail. There are now over 40 specific causes offered, and I need 5 minutes of your time to better understand how these causes relate to the real world.

Details:

The survey is open to designers and non-designers.
Goal is to better understand both causes and perception of causes of failure.
Prizes: $100, $50 and $25 Amazon.com gift certificates.
Survey has 7 questions, all multiple choice, and should take less than 5 minutes
You can be anonymous, but it you want a shot at prizes, put in your email.
Results will be presented at UIE13 next week – and on this site

Act now, the survey closes EOD FRIDAY.

Survey – Why do designers fail?

(Note:: If you try to take the survey twice on the same computer, it wont let you. You’ll get a “Thank you for taking the survey” page).

Posted Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 at 10:11 am

in Design | 4 Comments » |

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Del C - October 9, 2008 at 4:28 am #

Hi Scott,

The survey link doesn’t work for me. Gets to surveymonkey.com but then I just get a page with “This is not a valid survey link. Please contact the author of the survey and have them resend you the correct link to this survey.”

Jon - October 9, 2008 at 9:27 pm #

Why does your survey “require” Javascript to function? Are you trying to limit who is able to participate? Lack of enabled Javascript for unknown websites = user NON-FAIL; requiring Javascript for a webpage = designer FAIL.

Scott (admin) - October 9, 2008 at 9:45 pm #

Hi Jon: While it is my survey, I’m sure you noticed I’m using a 3rd party survey website to run it.

No, not trying to limit who can participate. Seems reasonable to trust http://www.surveymonkey.com with running javascript to me. They’re not unknown, they’ve been around for awhile.

As to why they need it, you’d have to ask them. I can’t help you on that one.

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