{"id":13500,"date":"2010-10-25T23:44:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T21:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=13500"},"modified":"2010-10-25T23:44:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T21:44:44","slug":"web-designers-are-all-the-same-almost-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/25\/web-designers-are-all-the-same-almost-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Web designers are all the same. Almost. Sort of."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I came across an excellent graphical representation<\/a> of a number of web design and development surveys, such as A List Apart Survey<\/a>. \u00a0The infographic pulls results of several such surveys into a single long image with graphs and stats. \u00a0One thing that I was surprised by was how narrow the results profile the average web designer. \u00a0There’s almost no distribution of value across the any chart – age, gender, ethnicity, geographic location, education, etc. \u00a0It almost looks like that web designers are a product of the single factory. \u00a0Have a look and tell me if you don’t agree.<\/p>\n

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Being surrounded at work by web designers developers for the last few years, I have to say that even though I know a few exceptions to the average, the majority seem to fit the profile just right. \u00a0I think we could use more variety, but I have no idea on how we could actually get it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I came across an excellent graphical representation of a number of web design and development surveys, such as A List Apart Survey. \u00a0The infographic pulls results of several such surveys into a single long image with graphs and stats. \u00a0One thing that I was surprised by was how narrow the results profile the average web … Continue reading Web designers are all the same. Almost. 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