How do you find the controls on Cocoa Controls?

Marine Barbaroux, April 30, 2012

Hey guys !

About two weeks ago, we ran a quick survey on the website to ask how you found the current content of Cocoa Controls. Now’s the time to share the results, and what we’re gonna do with the info we collected.

For a start, thank you for your feedback: we’ve had 433 respondents in two weeks, which is more than we anticipated, and very few of you say we have poor content. This is reassuring but maybe also expected: if you weren’t somewhat happy about it, you would probably not be visiting the website.

Our assumption was that the perceived quality of the controls would decrease with your experience (i.e. the more you know about iOS development, the more critical you become) but were surprised that this wasn’t completely the case. What you told us is that we have some gems in there, and some controls that aren’t so good.

This left us with a few more questions:
Do we have some controls listed here that everyone thinks are bad, or is someone else’s rubbish someone else’s gem? In the first case, we’d want to demote the poor controls… but in the latter case, we’d be demoting controls that still have value for some of our audience – which wouldn’t be good.

In order to make the content better, we’re working on a few improvements:

  • Creating an account management system, so that you can fave the controls you like and retrieve them easily (as mentioned before).
  • Improving the ability to rate a control, so that you can understand why a control is bad, i.e. easy to develop, not original, buggy, poorly architected etc. or conversely good, i.e. well documented, high value, very stable etc. so that you can find the real gems.

There is more in the pipeline, but we’d love to hear your thoughts in comments!