Poll on titles

[Russell Wilson-2]

>
> I created a poll on your *preference* for a title in our field (User
> Experience Designer, User Interface Engineer, ...).
>
> What I'm interested in is what is your first choice for a title (despite what your title may currently be).
>
>
> If you have 2min, please take the poll. I plan to publish the results to this list after 30 days of input (assuming
> enough people take the poll).
>
> The poll is in a sidebar widget top right at:  http://www.dexodesign.com
>
> Note: using a Google Webelement to do this and requires you to login
> with Google's Friend Connect to answer the poll.
> (may have missed it, but didn't see an anonymous option)
>
> Thx!!!
>
> Russ
>
>

[Larry Constantine]

Russell,

 

I am going to question in advance any possible validity to your poll results. First, any
poll that requires you to login to yet another service (like Google Friend Connect) will
limit and bias your sample. (I'm not going to join something just to answer a survey, and
I know plenty of others who feel the same way.) There are many free and public survey
tools (e.g., surveymonkey) that do not require this. Second, asking only first choice on a
limited set throws away information and yields spurious results. First and second choices
or, better yet, ranking, yields more information and more meaningful results.

 

--Larry Constantine, IDSA, ACM Fellow

  Professor | Department of Mathematics and Engineering

  University of Madeira | Funchal, Portugal

  Director | Laboratory for Usage-centered Software Engineering | www.labuse.org
<http://www.labuse.org/>

 

  _____  

From: agile-usability@... [mailto:agile-usability@...] On Behalf
Of Russell Wilson
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 11:10 AM
To: agile-usability@...
Subject: [agile-usability] Poll on titles

 





I created a poll on your *preference* for a title in our field (User Experience Designer,
User Interface Engineer, ...).

What I'm interested in is what is your first choice for a title (despite what your title
may currently be).

 

If you have 2min, please take the poll. I plan to publish the results to this list after
30 days of input (assuming

enough people take the poll).

 

The poll is in a sidebar widget top right at:   <http://www.dexodesign.com/>
http://www.dexodesign.com

 

Note: using a Google Webelement to do this and requires you to login with Google's Friend
Connect to answer the poll.

(may have missed it, but didn't see an anonymous option)

 

Thx!!!

 

Russ

 

[Todd Zaki Warfel]

Yeah, I went to it and bailed because I had to sign-in to participate.  
Also, the ____Designer titles won't let me input a prefix. So, what  
does that mean? That could lend to any number of interpretations.

On Jun 15, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Larry Constantine wrote:

> I am going to question in advance any possible validity to your poll  
> results. First, any poll that requires you to login to yet another  
> service (like Google Friend Connect) will limit and bias your  
> sample. (I’m not going to join something just to answer a survey,  
> and I know plenty of others who feel the same way.) There are many  
> free and public survey tools (e.g., surveymonkey) that do not  
> require this. Second, asking only first choice on a limited set  
> throws away information and yields spurious results. First and  
> second choices or, better yet, ranking, yields more information and  
> more meaningful results.
>

Cheers!

Todd Zaki Warfel
Principal Design Researcher
Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully.
----------------------------------
Contact Info
Voice: [phone]
Email: todd@...
AIM: twarfel@...
Blog: http://toddwarfel.com
Twitter: zakiwarfel
----------------------------------
In theory, theory and practice are the same.
In practice, they are not.

[Russell Wilson-2]

Very very valid point.  I threw this up quickly using Google's new Web
Elements (initially thought it suppoorted anonymous answers) and hoped that
enough people would have google logins that itwould be acceptable.  (Note:
you don't have to create a new login - you use your gmail login or there are
other options).

Suggestions for other ways to do this?  Surveymonkey?  I've gotten about 30
responses so far but would like many more.  If I can find a better tool I'll
repost this with that.

Thanks,
Russ

--------
Russell Wilson
Vice President of Product Design, NetQoS
Blog: http://www.dexodesign.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/russwilson


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Todd Zaki Warfel <lists@...>wrote:

> Yeah, I went to it and bailed because I had to sign-in to participate.
> Also, the ____Designer titles won't let me input a prefix. So, what does
> that mean? That could lend to any number of interpretations.
> On Jun 15, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Larry Constantine wrote:
>
> I am going to question in advance any possible validity to your poll
> results. First, any poll that requires you to login to yet another service
> (like Google Friend Connect) will limit and bias your sample. (I’m not going
> to join something just to answer a survey, and I know plenty of others who
> feel the same way.) There are many free and public survey tools (e.g.,
> surveymonkey) that do not require this. Second, asking only first choice on
> a limited set throws away information and yields spurious results. First and
> second choices or, better yet, ranking, yields more information and more
> meaningful results.
>
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> Todd Zaki Warfel
> Principal Design Researcher
> Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully.
> ----------------------------------
> *Contact Info*
> Voice: [phone]Email: todd@...
> AIM: twarfel@...
> Blog: http://toddwarfel.com <http://toddwarfel/>
> Twitter: zakiwarfel
> ----------------------------------
> In theory, theory and practice are the same.
> In practice, they are not.
>
>
>
>
>

[Russell Wilson-2]

Due to popular demand for eliminating the required login to take the survey,
the poll has been reposted using SurveyGizmo (without require a login).  I
separated title "prefixes" from "suffixes" into two questions where you can
rank them rather than just pick your "first choices".  Apologies for rough
formatting - tried to get this done between meetings... :-)

Please if you can go to http://www.dexodesign.com and take the *new and
improved* survey!

Best regards,
Russ

--------
Russell Wilson
Vice President of Product Design, NetQoS
Blog: http://www.dexodesign.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/russwilson


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Russell Wilson <russ.wilson@...>wrote:

> Very very valid point.  I threw this up quickly using Google's new Web
> Elements (initially thought it suppoorted anonymous answers) and hoped that
> enough people would have google logins that itwould be acceptable.  (Note:
> you don't have to create a new login - you use your gmail login or there are
> other options).
>
> Suggestions for other ways to do this?  Surveymonkey?  I've gotten about 30
> responses so far but would like many more.  If I can find a better tool I'll
> repost this with that.
>
> Thanks,
> Russ
>
> --------
> Russell Wilson
> Vice President of Product Design, NetQoS
> Blog: http://www.dexodesign.com
> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/russwilson
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Todd Zaki Warfel <lists@...>wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I went to it and bailed because I had to sign-in to participate.
>> Also, the ____Designer titles won't let me input a prefix. So, what does
>> that mean? That could lend to any number of interpretations.
>> On Jun 15, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Larry Constantine wrote:
>>
>> I am going to question in advance any possible validity to your poll
>> results. First, any poll that requires you to login to yet another service
>> (like Google Friend Connect) will limit and bias your sample. (I’m not going
>> to join something just to answer a survey, and I know plenty of others who
>> feel the same way.) There are many free and public survey tools (e.g.,
>> surveymonkey) that do not require this. Second, asking only first choice on
>> a limited set throws away information and yields spurious results. First and
>> second choices or, better yet, ranking, yields more information and more
>> meaningful results.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Todd Zaki Warfel
>>  Principal Design Researcher
>> Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully.
>> ----------------------------------
>> *Contact Info*
>> Voice: [phone] Email: todd@...
>> AIM: twarfel@...
>> Blog: http://toddwarfel.com <http://toddwarfel/>
>> Twitter: zakiwarfel
>> ----------------------------------
>> In theory, theory and practice are the same.
>> In practice, they are not.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>