Since my post about the UPA 2005 Salary Survey, which referenced WebWord’s post about the survey, John Rhodes pointed out the gender disparity in pay.
It’s true, we did see a difference.
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From the monthly archives:
April 2006
Way back in 2004 Daring Fireball’s John Gruber posted a long but very interesting rant about why open-source GNU/Linux software is hard to use.
The article itself was a response to a misguided, condescending post from a Linux alpha geek about how he couldn’t figure out printer-sharing on a networked Linux box. The geek’s take was that the software should be made “easy enough for Aunt Tillie,” and implied that UI design in the open-source world was close to achieving this.
Gruber rightly pointed out that the open-source developer ranks were nowhere near to achieving that level of usability in their software, and would never achieve it as long as they treated UI design as an afterthought.
A somewhat long, but worthwhile read.
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Webword blogged the UPA 2005 Salary Survey, put out recently by the Usability Professionals’ Association.
Since I was the author of the salary survey report, I probably should’ve blogged it first. Better late than never.
Some highlights:
- UPA received 1,329 responses. (Nice n…)
- Expert review and usability testing were the most utilized techniques.
- Eye-tracking and accessibility testing were the least utilized.
- The overall average salary (in US dollars) was $78,445.
- The average salary for males was $82,882; for females, $74,316.
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