9,429 people participated in the 2019 Design Census. Check out the data below, or download the PDF for a portable copy.
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The 2019 AIGA Design Census was open to the public for five weeks starting April 1, 2019. It was shared directly with AIGA’s members and attendees of the AIGA Design Conference, as well as the wider U.S. design community via social media, paid advertising, and Eye on Design’s readership. Next year we hope to extend the Design Census to the rest of the world.
We spent months developing a tight lineup of survey questions, and while the 2019 Design Census questions and resulting data set are stronger than in previous years, there is always room for improvement. Thank you to those who have sent us feedback. Your input will not only help us make next year’s Design Census even more comprehensive, but in the short term it has helped us in our contextual reporting around the 2019 results. If you have feedback, please email us at submit@aiga.org, and a senior editor will log your comments.
In order to get a more accurate picture of the current state of design, we went beyond simple data visualizations and identified the key areas of interest as well as the topics that required a more nuanced approach. To do this we created Python code that enabled us to work with both quantitative and qualitative data, regardless of the number of responses, as some questions enabled the user to select multiple choice answer options. Once the data was streamlined, we used applied pivots and different types of aggregation. We then compared qualitative-textual answers with different scales, like charting the broad correlation between salary and satisfaction. Download the raw data and give the data a whirl.
View the results of the 2017 Design Census, the 2016 Design Census, and the 2008–2014 AIGA Salary Surveys.
