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Surveys that work: a webinar for UXPA

Caroline Jarrett 30 July 2025 26 February 2021
Surveys that work: a webinar for UXPA

Some of us find that colleagues or clients think of ‘doing a survey’ as the same as ‘doing some research’ – which may explain why organisations send out so many survey requests. In this webinar, for UXPA International, I introducedContinue reading… Surveys that work: a webinar for UXPA

What does low literacy mean in practice?

Caroline Jarrett 25 November 2025 20 February 2021
What does low literacy mean in practice?

Hi! You’re reading this, correct? What about someone who has low literacy? What does that actually mean for them? Low literacy means ‘not good at reading’ UNESCO describes literacy in terms of life skills, and emphasises that literacy is aContinue reading… What does low literacy mean in practice?

How to create a UX presentation for stakeholders

Caroline Jarrett 20 July 2026 30 January 2021
How to create a UX presentation for stakeholders

Start by thinking about the needs of the people you’ll be presenting to. For a UX presentation, those people are often from the development team (mostly engineers who will change code, but maybe also content designers and other UX people)Continue reading… How to create a UX presentation for stakeholders

Live and live differently – an Effortmark poster

Caroline Jarrett 8 November 2024 2 December 2020
Live and live differently – an Effortmark poster

Back in January 2020, I did a thing we don’t do any more: go to a conference. It was New Adventures 2020 in Nottingham and I chose it for two reasons: Andrew Travers recommended it, and I wanted to hearContinue reading… Live and live differently – an Effortmark poster

What is a design system?

Caroline Jarrett 30 July 2025 1 December 2020
What is a design system?

Recently, Amy Hupe asked this question on Twitter: Who’s got a really clear and concise explanation of what design systems are, that would make sense to someone who’s never come across one before? We had a good discussion and IContinue reading… What is a design system?

“Write good questions for forms” advice in the NHS Digital service manual

Caroline Jarrett 30 July 2025 23 November 2020
“Write good questions for forms” advice in the NHS Digital service manual

Someone asked me about writing good questions for forms. As usual I recommended the NHS Digital service manual page as a favourite resource – and then I thought “have I put that on my website?” And I hadn’t. So hereContinue reading… “Write good questions for forms” advice in the NHS Digital service manual

Please make survey tools more accessible

Caroline Jarrett 30 July 2025 16 November 2020
Please make survey tools more accessible

“Which is the best survey tool for accessibility?” It’s a question that I’m asked quite often, and also that I’ve often asked myself. There are two ways to interpret this question: Which is the best survey tool for creating questionnairesContinue reading… Please make survey tools more accessible

A poster for co-design

Caroline Jarrett 30 July 2025 12 November 2020
A poster for co-design

What does co-design mean to you? This Effortmark poster for World Usability Day 2020 celebrates some of the things that co-design means to me. At the end of September 2020, I attended the inaugural meeting of a cross-government co-design community.Continue reading… A poster for co-design

A chat about forms and form builders – xgov

Caroline Jarrett 2 February 2022 2 October 2020
A chat about forms and form builders – xgov

If you’ve tried to code digital forms entirely by hand then you’ll know why we value form builders so much – digital tools that help with the process of getting the right questions into the right order. But even theContinue reading… A chat about forms and form builders – xgov

Hello, co-design community

Caroline Jarrett 30 July 2025 30 September 2020
Hello, co-design community

29th September 2020 was a really fun day for me because I attended the first meeting of a co-design community. The idea came from Janet Hughes, Delivery Director working on farming and countryside at Defra (the UK government’s Department forContinue reading… Hello, co-design community

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