Improve your online form 10X by doing this one thing!
It is surprising how many forms and surveys don't do this ...
Test it 3 times ✅✅✅ = 💪
- Put your favourite hat on🧑🚒 and read EVERYTHING on the screen💻, and answer the survey for real.
- Wear a really old hat🎓(tbh, any old hat👰 will do) and pretend to be someone else (e.g. Mr Grumpy😠). Answer the survey again.
- Find that hat you bought on holiday🏖️🏄 and pretend English isn't your first language. Repeat the survey. DTMS?
- Bonus Tip #1: Look at the survey on your mobile phone📱
What did you find?
🕵️♂️One or two typos, the wrong answer option label(s) on a question, acronyms or techie language in a not-that-straight-forward way of saying it. Question repeated?
Phew. Now make those edits before you hit send ...
Bonus tip #2
Hallway test the survey. Ask a co-worker if they can test-run the survey for you and make observations. They don't need to wear a hat.
"A hallway usability test is where you grab the next person that passes by in the hallway and force them to try to use the code you just wrote. If you do this to five people, you will learn 95% of what there is to learn about usability problems in your code." Source: Joel on Software
If you are sending out a quick online survey or form (and Microsoft Forms are the worst): Slow down! Check your content. It's great how easy it is to throw up a quick and dirty form in 2024, but so many errors and potential snags. Some of them will matter.
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