pcb-rnd knowledge pool
The 'order button' feature poll/survey results
| order_button_poll by Tibor 'Igor2' Palinkas on 2019-06-03 | Tags: insight, order, poll, survey, result |
Abstract: n/a
1. General acceptance of the proposed feature
Question 1 answers:
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1 2 3 4 5
Which shows half of the participants would support the feature. Filtering for those who answered 4 or 5 then only thos who answered 5 for question 3:
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Which clearly shows that among those who normally get their boards fabbed the idea is popular.
Those who regulary do boards (more than 6 designs a year, answer 4 is 4 or 5) also like the feature:
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Conclusion: the feature is popular among the target audience and is irrelevant or even refused by those users who don't send boards to fabs anyway.
2. Offline usage
Question 2 answers:
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1 2 3 4 5
Which means about half of the submitters would have difficulties getting online for an order. The same question filtered by those who would use the feature (question 1, answer 4 or 5)
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1 2 3 4 5
which shows there are a few users who would like to use a place order
button but they are off-line.
Conclusion:
majority of the potential users will not have network
connection problems they couldn't solve.
6. Asking your fab to join
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which shows our users are pro-active! The same results filtered for those
who do a lot of designs and often use profession fabs (filter string
D[5] > 2
):
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1 2 3 4 5
Which shows users who are customers of fabs already are also willing to ask them.
Conclusion: it is worth advertising the feature on the mailing list and asking users for bugging their fabs.
7. Fab choice bias for pcb-rnd support
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Conclusion: there is only weak connection, fabs probably won't get a lot of extra orders from pcb-rnd users just because of this feature.
8. Would the user invest in the feature
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Which is an amazing result, implying even those said strong yes who are not among the target audience. For example those who rarely get boards fabbed (answer 5 is 1 or 2):
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Conclusion: we can depend on user investment on this one.
9. Beta testing
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Conclusion:
high willingness of testing.
10. importance of a CLI version
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Those who often get boards fabbed (answer 5 is 4 or 5):
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Concolusion:
Our users are divided on this one. However, there's
still a strong interest in experimenting with the CLI on this feature.
Resources, data, scripts
- Background: what it is about.
- Survey questions
- raw results (anonymized) - each line is a submission, each column is the answer for the corresponding question
- script to print statistics