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10 Tips for Using Surveys

to Improve Your Designs

If you've ever been disappointed with survey results...you're not alone. Survey success isn't fully reliant on your distribution strategy, your initial approach is just as important!

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Below, we walk through how to design a survey that keeps your participants engaged the whole way through and delivers the results you need.

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10 Tips for Using Surveys

to Improve Your Designs

If you've ever been disappointed with survey results...you're not alone. Survey success isn't fully reliant on your distribution strategy, your initial approach is just as important!

‍

Below, we walk through how to design a survey that keeps your participants engaged the whole way through and delivers the results you need.

‍

Learn how to use surveys to improve designs

What you'll

find inside

Quick design tips to save you time and help you avoid common pitfalls

Small tweaks like avoiding UX jargon might seem obvious but can make a world of difference in your survey design.

Write questions in-between the lines

Learn how to uncover more about your user (behaviors, opinions) beyond their direct answers.

Gold-standard question templates and survey examples

Get inspired with real-world survey examples and specific question templates to guide you in your design.

Tried-and-true survey tool recommendations

Learn about various tool options and identify what might be a good fit for your overall team, research needs, and budget.

People have high expectations of the information they will glean from [surveys], and they rarely live up to these expectations.

Nikki Anderson-Stanier

Founder, User Research Academy

10 Tips for Using Surveys to Improve Your Designs

Learn how to design a survey that keeps your participants engaged the whole way through and delivers the results you need

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