Tag Archives: survey

Bad Interfaces – Technology Leading the Way

Sep
12
2011

Gold wall of hanging gold cylinders with people behind it.

I don’t mind completing surveys, I even do those phone surveys.  Having working with several different marketing teams and conducted countless UX information gathering surveys over the years.  I can understand the difficulties of getting a good response from people. So I don’t mind taking the time to complete the odd survey.

Still I have to wonder sometimes if the teams behind the surveys are really understanding their audience that is completing the survey in the first place.

A few weeks back our fence was blown over in a storm.   We put in an insurance claim, it was processed, and we got the fence repaired.  No issue, good service all round.

Why Use PDF over HTML

May
30
2011

Stack of 100 year old 1890's books with chess set in the background

As a web professional and an avocate for inclusive design (web accessibility) I have often wondered why organisations are so obsessed with using PDF documents on web sites as opposed to HTML based documents.

After all PDF documents don’t do accessibility as well as HTML pages do.

Given the ease of use of most modern CMS you would consider web page creation and editing would be as easy as authoring a word document.

Now I have a good idea why my clients use PDFs over HTML, especially government agencies, but I don’t have the community wide picture.

User Surveys – Do it Right or Not at All.

Feb
17
2010

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I have been involved with many user surveys over the years. Some have gone well. Some have been a complete waste of time and effort. The main distinction between them is the surveys that were professionally developed and pretested would succeed. The ones that had been knocked together by a well meaning manager were often destined to failure.

It comes down to this – unless you have experience designing surveys, then it’s best to either hire someone who has had experience and training, or find another way to collect the same information.