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America is actually where modern day racism – in terms of the brutality that was born out of it – began

What?! Man, people have been killing each other over “race”—however you want to define that—for hundreds if not thousands of years. Modern day racism wasn’t born in America; modern day racism was born in ancient times.

That said, I want to go on record as saying that as a black woman designer, it’s important to me to see numbers regarding minority representation in the field, and the reason is simple. Designers are culture creators, and I’m interested to know the gender and ethnicity of those who are sitting in the driver’s seat, so to speak. Growing up as a minority changes, to varying degrees, how we perceive the world as how it perceives us. (Granted, there are many things that contribute to this: ethnicity and gender are but two.) That perception bleeds into our work—or perhaps is our work.

If only 1% of designers are black, that’s interesting and significant to me, if not from a design POV, then from an sociological POV. That data allows me to ask interesting questions: what other points of view are we not seeing? How does a monolithic point of view aid or impair our culture? In what other ways are these missing black would-be designers creating culture, or are they?

posted at 05:19 pm on November 3, 2007 by amber simmons

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Is it just my machine, or were a lot of the graph tags blurred? I couldn’t read which line represented what.

posted at 07:35 pm on November 3, 2007 by Jonathan Landrum

93 Feasibility or Pilot Study?

I just wondered if you did any kind of feasibility or pilot study prior to releasing the questionnaire to the world? I know you’ve said you found problems with some of the questions so I assume not but I’d rather know for sure (as a student doing a research methods module…).

posted at 07:45 pm on November 7, 2007 by Hayley Marsden

94 Fantastic

Good that these results are actually free for all to study and see. Kudos to whoever is invovled! :) Hoping something in future for the other side’s survey, ie. the users :)

posted at 09:45 am on November 9, 2007 by Jasa Muhammad Alfian

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It’s nice to see that the results are free for all to view analyze. Congrats to all behind the scene..:)

posted at 09:35 am on November 27, 2007 by SAJIBABU SALI

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It’s really great that everyone may view the free results. Thanks to all the people working behind ; )

posted at 07:22 am on November 30, 2007 by KH Yau

97 Connect more dots

Very interesting. I would like to see how happiness and money plot out. Also the bias section took up alot of space, what is the bias definition for each chart? it seems that many of the workers, designers- make less than the managers. I am just learning web design, I am in the 50 plus age group, i want to be part of the exciting world of websites, I am taking classes, trying by doing and reading all I can. Designers should make alot more money. Thanks for the work and results.

posted at 07:54 am on December 21, 2007 by Brian Bamrick

98 educaton bias

Just stumbled on this. Props for putting it together and making it public (even the data)!

I’d be curious to see if respondents report any education bias: Is not having a college degree, or too high a degree, a hindrance?

posted at 09:34 pm on February 8, 2008 by Alex Storey

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posted at 07:18 pm on August 7, 2008 by Di shipachev

100 A Manager's Perspective!?

I would love to see a survey to focus on some of the data regarding “Years at current job” and “Number of jobs held” and “Next Career Move”. I would like to see this data to explain why such a high percentage of the development community has limited time at a single employer. I would also love to see an employer/management survey focusing on the same data of why they feel designers tend to jump ship so often. Does job stress, constant education, low pay, fierce competition, etc. have anything to do with the career choices? How many web designers have gone from full time to part time and freelance? How many developers feel burned out?

posted at 07:16 am on August 13, 2008 by Frank Beier