OpenSource Usability Labs

Thank you for taking the time answer our survey!
We had a great outcome with a total of 365 successfully completed surveys and 106 partially finished ones.

A few things that came out that you might find interesting:

• Overall, 346 people took the survey in German, 68 in English
• 30% were women, 70% were men
• on average, people were 31 years old
• 85% come from Germany, 10% from the Rest of Europe, the remaining 5% are from other parts of the world including China and South Africa (!)
• Professional appointments: women mostly use papercalendars (65%) and locally installed calendar applications (44%), men mostly use locally installed calendar applications (54%) and Smartphone calendars (46%)
• Private appointments: women mostly use paper calendars (83%) and locally installed calendar applications (24%), men mostly use Smartphone calendars (49%) and locally installed calendar applications (45%)
• The calendar application used the most is Microsoft Outlook (45%) followed by others (25%) and eGroupware (23%)
• 43% of all people asked use a smartphone, the biggest smartphone brand being Nokia (30%) followed by Apple iPhone/iPod touch (27%)
• 1/3 of smartphone users synchronize daily between phone and computer
• Per week, 3/4 of all respondents make one or no all day appointment, 2-10 appointments shorter than one day, none with international partners and 1-5 recurring appointments
• Half of all people who answered don’t make any multi-day appointments per week
• Nearly half of all people (45%) don’t make any public appointments, while 2/3 of them make 2-5 private appointments per week
• Nearly two thirds (65%) of the people asked find it very important or important to include tasks and milestones into their calendar
• Slightly more than two thirds of all respondents find it very important or important to make appointments distinguishable by colour
• But there no noticeable tendency when it comes to accessing other calendars to coordinate appointments: 39% say, that this is absolutely not important or not important to them, while 34% say the opposite. 20% are inbetween, though.
• An clear majority of everyone (86%) who answered wants to have a “quick save possibility”, with start (98%), name (92%), place (67%) and end (58%) being the most important information for creating an appointment.
• As for the calendar view, people considered the week view to be the most important one followed by the day view.
• Also, Pop-Up seems to be the most favourite way of all the respondents to be reminded of an appointment, 2/3 (67%) voted for that, followed by sound signal (48%).
• And for the last question: As you can see in the picture below, synchronization is what people miss most in their current calendar, followed by reminders and groupware functionality:

If you have any questions regarding the survey, please ask!

Tags: calendar, Results, survey, Tine 2.0

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