A List Apart’s Web Design 2007 Survey Results

Posted by Paul Rouke at 11:35am on the 24th October 2007

Earlier this year I took part in a Web Design 2007 Survey by A List Apart and the survey results are now available for download.

Coming in at a huge 82 pages the survey provides a fantastic insight into the global web design industry, which were the result of almost 33,000 web professionals taking part.

A sample of some of the results include:

education levels and how relevant these are to particular jobs
number of years experience in a given field
salary ranges
job satisfaction

In line with other professionals working in the fields of Information Architecture, User Interface Design and Usability Consultancy, it was great to see we share strong feelings of job satisfaction along with a shared lack of higher education (I gained strong ‘O’ Level results but didn’t attend further education for Batchelors/Masters etc).

Instead I suspect other professionals in these areas have also gained the majority of their expertise in live commercial environments, such as myself joining Littlewoods Shop Direct Group (then GUS Home Shopping) in 2000 as part of their 1st e-commerce team, and subsequently playing a key role in developing the user experience across multiple transactional sites as online sales grew to around 35% of group turnover during the next 6 years.

Hopefully the survey results will make interesting reading!

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