What Age and Experience are Affinity Users? (–> Poll)

[thomaso]

[ If you don't see the poll scroll up to get it displayed. ]

Some users appear to be experienced with 'ancient' terms, more common before DTP – like certain aspects in typesetting, image processing (lithography) or preparation for print (prepress). What sounds familiar or even essential for some users may appear redundant or unnecessary complex to others – accordingly feature requests may sound helpful or cause rejection. I am interested in a statistical impression of the users variety concerning their different knowledge.

The poll asks two questions:

• The user's age.
• The user's education / profession.

The poll does not publish user names.

[AlejandroJ]

I think the poll is not necessarily going to show the average age and education of Affinity users, but the age of Affinity users that for some particular reason participate in its forum.

There might be some that have a brief participation because they want to solve a problem they are facing or because they want to get to know how to do something, but that’s all, and others might participate because they enjoy learning from the knowledge of the ones that know better and/or want to share their experience in a forum.

I am on the side of the quite grown up ones that prefer to participate in forums, keep learning and learning through thoroughly written articles or books, take my time when I want to write something to express myself, and I prefer to get to know about the news reading newspapers. But most of the young people I know seem to prefer to watch videos from Youtube rather than read articles, to write and read telegraphic messages in whatsapp and/or get to know the news through Twitter, but not that much participating in forums. Not meaning with this that there will not be as well those who live in both worlds or in an alternative one.

But anyway, my point is that I think the poll is not necessarily going to reflect the age of Affinity users. It will reflect something else, whatever it might be.

[ESPR]

What does graphical education mean ?

Lots of people who study art/design at university dont learn how to use graphicsdesign software in their courses.

What about self taught people ?

[h_d]

Retired people...

[sfriedberg]

Not for another 10 years, sadly.  And I am already a grey beard.

[Gear maker]

thomaso, I am curious as to why you figure there could possibly be some one year olds using the Affinity products, but assume there couldn't be any users 61 and above.  I assure you that that assumption is completely incorrect.😁

[Joachim_L]

Looking at the age poll, I think Serif should change to BIG icons and BIG text in the UI.

7 hours ago, sfriedberg said:

And I am already a grey beard.

You are not alone.

 

[GarryP]

In addition to the issues already raised, how would statistics of people’s ages and “graphical education” (or lack of it) tell you what sort of terms they might be using?
I can easily imagine someone in their teens learning ‘old’ terminology from a website about traditional typesetting and can just as easily imagine someone in their 80’s learning ‘new’ terminology from young friends/colleagues. And plenty of other possibilities in-between.
Also, you have no idea where people are learning (country/establishment), or which course they are on (or did) or who they are being taught by, so that’s not going to get you much useful data either.
For instance, some newer colleges may be teaching up-to-date terminology whereas some older universities may have a more ‘traditional’ syllabus, or the other way around, or something else. You have no way of knowing so you can’t infer much from the data you get.
Good luck with the poll but I can’t see what useful information you might get from it given your initial statement.

[Chris26]

I do not know which age to tick since my physical age is older than my brain age which is older than my heart age -😊

[firstdefence]

The poll can only be for people who reply to the poll, so at the moment, the majority of Affinity users who reply to the poll is in the 41 to 60 age range, assuming nobody is telling porky pies.