The Season of Usability 2009 Gallery survey results are in!

Submitted by jhaines on Fri, 2009-08-28 00:11
Thank you to everyone who participated. Your input has been valuable.

We had hundreds of responses from users in 49 countries. Did you know...

  • Most users use Gallery for personal purposes (85%), 10% use Gallery for professional reasons, and 5% are developers or supporters.
  • Gallery accounts come in all sizes. Users share anywhere from 3 to 350,000 photos and manage anywhere from 1 to 25,000 user accounts.
  • The vast majority of Gallery users (86%) have an IT education or work in a field that requires IT skills.
  • The five most important qualities in photo management software for our users are: easy to upload photos; good user interface; easy administration; speed of tasks; and easy to set photo permissions.

Check out the Full Season Of Usability 2009 Survey Results.

Submitted by sendhil76 on Mon, 2009-09-07 17:52.

Why is the presentation of the usability test results so big a download? I have just had a look at the first 3 slides...all text and minimal graphics and i am already clocking 12 Mb as downloaded...and still loading??

Not a very good idea in my opinion. I have already given up on the wait for the download.

Is there any other resource for the presentation which is not so bandwidth intensive? I would appreciate a link to the same please.

Thanks and best regards.

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Submitted by ckdake on Mon, 2009-09-07 18:06.

What file are you downloading? The presentation is an online document via Google Docs that seems to load pretty quickly here.

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Submitted by nivekiam on Tue, 2009-09-08 01:33.

Well I tried zipping up the PDF and PPT files that you can download, they didn't get any smaller...

The PDF is 26MB and the PPT is 32MB. I can only think that the graphics may not be optimized for the web.

Yep, checking the first slide it alone is 1MB. Ah, yeah, every slide is at least 1MB. I think it might be the background.

This would explain the wonderful experience we had loading it over the wireless at the hotel :) But on my 16mbs connection downloads fast :)

Just made a copy to try to edit myself and the entire slide is a higher res graphic. I'm not sure what jhaines used to create the slideshow originally. Maybe if we sweet talk her we can get a copy that doesn't have the background image, or it optimized for low-bandwidth connections? If not, if she is able to export the original straight to PowerPoint I can edit it and create a low-bandwidth option.
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Submitted by KelenColeman on Wed, 2010-07-14 23:40.

I'm happy with Gallery 3 as my photo client. However, it kinda has bad brand recognition. I think this is because of the generic name "Gallery." Granted, I'm not marketing person, or have the much experience outside of photography, but, I would argue that the lack of identifiable branding may be hurting awareness.

I also realize this is coming pretty far after the survey. My apologies in advance.

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Submitted by floridave on Thu, 2010-07-15 23:10.

The webmaster over at blog.apollohosting.com posted the following soundbite:

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Oh, and I simply have to give kudos to folks who developed Gallery for, well, calling it "Gallery." Sometimes you can tell when there were no "marketing guys" in the room. I look forward to the day when Ford comes out with "Car", Procter & Gamble announces "Soap", and Nabisco finally releases "Food."

:-)

Just type the word gallery in your browser or gallery in google and you will see that we have very good brand recognition.

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