Survey Fail: WordPress 2.7 Icons, Question One
Why I gave up on the WordPress 2.7 icon survey:
Q.1
How do you think the [two] GB icon sets as a whole would fit into WordPress 2.7?
*Because both sets are in same visual style, you can answer for both even though they use different images
# Perfectly
# Okay
# Not sure
# Not very well
# Wouldn’t fit at all
Maybe it’s just the 2nd-person construction that bothered me. Or maybe my academic temperament made me bristle at the pre-emptive strike against close analysis of two icon sets. Or perhaps I just no longer believe in the asterisk mode of annotation.
Regardless, “Q.1″ was a total turn-off. I’m not interested in spending my time on a survey whose first question begs itself (or something like that).
November 13th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Too bad you quit after Q1. If you’d scrolled down below that question you’d have seen that in Q2-4 the two sets from that designer were given individual opportunities for analysis.
November 13th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Hi, Jane,
That’s nice to know, of course. Still, for me the point was more about careful survey design than about the rest of the survey’s content—hence my emphasis on the problem of Q.1 specifically in its role as the first question.
In other words, as I often discuss with my composition students, one risks alienating one’s audience—readers, survey-takers, email recipients—at each moment in any kind of communication.
More to the point, in fixed, linear forms, the order in which you present each little interaction with the members of that audience matters tremendously for its reception.
Best,
Devan