Average age of TalkGraphics users.

**Egg Bramhill** · 19 September 2018, 12:49 AM

It appears to me that the average age of TalkGraphics users is getting older but without younger users being interested in the software and this is a great shame.

So I've created a poll to gauge the demographic of Xara users age.

**ss-kalm** · 19 September 2018, 12:51 AM

8 ...

Would it not have been easier just to ask AGE?

**gwpriester** · 19 September 2018, 12:54 AM

Egg, I moved this to OTC.

**Egg Bramhill** · 19 September 2018, 12:56 AM

Hi Keith, that can become very burdensome on TG's poll, to many options but without a simple poll lay out. Polls are a bit finicky to set up on TG and perhaps you where viewing my incomplete poll

**Egg Bramhill** · 19 September 2018, 01:01 AM

@ Gary
Still appears to me within the
Forum: TalkGraphics questions, suggestions and feedback forum.

**Egg Bramhill** · 19 September 2018, 01:15 AM

okay Gary, now in the Off Topic forum

**handrawn** · 19 September 2018, 07:22 AM

so what happened to <20 ? not that it applies to me except with my cartoonist hat on maybe

millennials may be far more interested in facebook/twitter and the like than 'old-style forums and they grow up 'spoliled for choice' program-wise

**Acorn** · 19 September 2018, 07:27 AM

Radio 4 listener, but still young in heart.

Should I not get 6 votes for the different Xara Desktop products I use?

Is the TG calendar only visible to Moderators?

Acorn

**pauland** · 19 September 2018, 10:18 AM

As a Xara user how old are you?

..exactly the same age that I am as an Adobe user, a Sketch user, an Apple user.. LOL

I think it's always been fairly clear that the TG demographic is long in the tooth. I suspect that the TG demographic is also heavily skewed by long-time users that remember when Xara was pretty exciting software. I remember my WOW moment discovering it at a design exhibition in Islington, London. Good old Xara Studio 1.0. Xara software lost that WOW factor many years ago, sadly. In fairness there isn't too much WOW software about any more - I've become used to seeing good software.

If the actual user demographic mirrors the TG demographic then the software is doomed.

**ernie-f** · 19 September 2018, 12:08 PM

Many young students who learn graphic design will not know Xara at all. Teaching at the university and in Germany is exclusively done with Adobe CC. All major agencies that also train typesetters use Adobe.
A few know Corel or now Affinity. The fact is, however, that only Adobe software is trained and a defacto industry standard.
How are young people supposed to know the benefits of Xara? Xara calls itself professional but does not participate in the professional DTP market. It fails on all sides to pick up young users.