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The Most Crucial Question and the Burning Issue for Product Makers

Caroline Jarrett 7 June 2023 3 April 2023
The Most Crucial Question and the Burning Issue for Product Makers

The Product Makers community invited me to share some thoughts about surveys. To get the best value from a survey, it’s important to be really clear on why you are doing it. In this talk, I encouraged product makers toContinue reading… The Most Crucial Question and the Burning Issue for Product Makers

How to look at a form: Boye and Company

Caroline Jarrett 24 February 2026 29 November 2022
How to look at a form: Boye and Company

It was an honour to be invited back for my second Boye and Company conference call. Previously, I talked about better surveys. This time, we focused on my favourite topic – forms that work.  We looked at a selection ofContinue reading… How to look at a form: Boye and Company

Prune and tune your forms – webinar

Caroline Jarrett 23 October 2024 4 November 2022
Prune and tune your forms – webinar

“Who wants a longer, more horrible form?” That’s the question that I asked at the start of a Lunch and Learn webinar I joined recently. Orok Brooks, UX researcher and instructor, joined the discussion, hosted by Alun Lucas of formsContinue reading… Prune and tune your forms – webinar

Seven steps to a better survey in slides

Caroline Jarrett 4 December 2025 7 March 2022
Seven steps to a better survey in slides

These slides introduce you to my seven-step survey process in three sessions: Goals and Sample. Surveys that Work Day 1 Rosenfeld (.pptx, 4Mb) Questions, Questionnaire, and Fieldwork. Surveys that Work Day 2 Rosenfeld (.pptx, 2.5Mb) Responses and Reports.  Surveys thatContinue reading… Seven steps to a better survey in slides

An app that reads alt-text from pptx

Caroline Jarrett 1 November 2024 22 September 2021
An app that reads alt-text from pptx

We think that it’s really important to make PowerPoint presentations accessible. And that means: writing alt-text for all the images. The PowerPoint Checker app reads a file in .pptx format,  extracts all the alt-text, and gives you a slide-by-slide report on what itContinue reading… An app that reads alt-text from pptx

How to improve the inevitable survey: SDinGov21 workshop

Caroline Jarrett 30 July 2025 17 September 2021
How to improve the inevitable survey: SDinGov21 workshop

Surveys are still really popular as a research method with colleagues (if not with service designers). These slides are from a workshop at the 2021 Service Design in Government conference on ‘how to improve the survey that is going toContinue reading… How to improve the inevitable survey: SDinGov21 workshop

Thought for the day by Tim Paul: a diagram about forms

Caroline Jarrett 1 November 2024 12 August 2021
Thought for the day by Tim Paul: a diagram about forms

On 5th August 2021, Tim Paul (head of interaction design at the UK Government Digital Service) posted a thought for the day on Twitter with a diagram (below) that resonated with a lot of people, including me, so Tim agreedContinue reading… Thought for the day by Tim Paul: a diagram about forms

Surveys that work: a webinar for FocusVision

Caroline Jarrett 24 April 2024 25 March 2021
Surveys that work: a webinar for FocusVision

When FocusVision asked me to do my webinar about the Survey Octopus for their webinar series, I felt honoured and a little nervous. Would my ideas about surveys really be valuable to their audience of market research professionals, many ofContinue reading… Surveys that work: a webinar for FocusVision

Creating presentations for stakeholders: contributing to an article for UXmatters

Caroline Jarrett 20 November 2025 30 January 2021
Creating presentations for stakeholders: contributing to an article for UXmatters

Janet Six asked me to contribute to an ‘Ask UXMatters’ panel discussion on the topic of how to create presentations for development teams versus executive teams. I shared  my thoughts, which focus on how the teams will want to knowContinue reading… Creating presentations for stakeholders: contributing to an article for UXmatters

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

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