Absolutely. Creating a good survey for /anything/ can be nightmarishly
difficult.
Indeed, there's already some confusion.
I thought the question was to identify a good design, not good designing.
(not that it matters to the level of difficulty - I'm just clarifying what I
meant) Just the language poses significant issues.
Cheers.
Fil
On 5 June 2010 17:22, Mattias Arvola <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Fil and Karel,
>
> Such a survey would be interesting. And it would actually test the
> generalizability of my results. We are in our project also looking at
> professionals and amateurs in computer game design and digital art.
>
> There are however a few problems you would need to handle in such a survey.
> My impression after a few years of researching this, is that you get a
> rather idealistic or simple answer when you ask people what good design is
> in general. Such unprecise questions give rise to platitude answers. I
> suspect that when you ask people to tell you what was good and bad about one
> of their own actual projects you get a more nuanced answer. Finally, if you
> look at what people actually do consider during a design task you will get
> yet another answer. I will investigate this further in the analysis of my
> data during the autumn. As always, what people say they do is not what they
> actually do. However, what people say they do is also interesting. I will
> write three or four more articles on these issues in interaction design
> during next year..
>
> If you set up a survey study you would need to address these rather tricky
> problems. There might however be some smart questionnaire design that I
> haven't thought about.
>
> Cheers,
> // Mattias
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> MATTIAS ARVOLA, Ph.D.
> Sr. lecturer in Interaction Design.
> Linköping University and Södertörn University.
> www.arvola.se
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