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Thinking about surveys of patients with Loyal

Caroline Jarrett 1 November 2024 8 June 2022
Thinking about surveys of patients with Loyal

How do we ask people about their experiences of healthcare? That was the theme of a survey studio that I did for Loyal earlier this year. Loyal is a healthcare business in the USA, and I worked with Amira PettusContinue reading… Thinking about surveys of patients with Loyal

Use your plain language skills to improve your survey

Caroline Jarrett 1 November 2024 20 April 2022
Use your plain language skills to improve your survey

Plain language skills are vital for surveys.  If people can easily understand your questions, then that will help them to give accurate answers. And plain language specialists are constantly thinking about their audience and its needs – which is vitalContinue reading… Use your plain language skills to improve your survey

Get more insight from smaller surveys by patchworking

Caroline Jarrett 1 November 2024 8 April 2022
Get more insight from smaller surveys by patchworking

There’s a dilemma in the world of surveys: we want to find out lots of things by asking people questions, but they do not want to answer Big Honkin’ Surveys any more. Patchwork is the art of putting small piecesContinue reading… Get more insight from smaller surveys by patchworking

Surveys that work: a 10hr workshop for Rosenfeld Media

Caroline Jarrett 7 June 2023 7 March 2022
Surveys that work: a 10hr workshop for Rosenfeld Media

My publisher Rosenfeld Media invited me to join the Rosenfeld Media online workshops program to teach an intensive 10hr dive into surveys. It was a pleasure to work with participants from the United States, Canada and Germany. In sessions onContinue reading… Surveys that work: a 10hr workshop for Rosenfeld Media

Surveys that work for the Harvard User Research Community

Caroline Jarrett 24 April 2024 19 January 2022
Surveys that work for the Harvard User Research Community

I was delighted to begin this year’s presentations by talking about my book, Surveys That Work, as part of the Brown Bag Book Club series organised by the User Research Center at Harvard University An encouragingly large group of HarvardContinue reading… Surveys that work for the Harvard User Research Community

Prune, tune, postpone, explain – to improve your questionnaire

Caroline Jarrett 1 November 2024 13 October 2021
Prune, tune, postpone, explain – to improve your questionnaire

What can you do when your draft questionnaire gets too long? I’m suggesting ‘prune, tune, postpone, explain’ – four strategies to cut it down. In my new book, Surveys That Work: a practical guide for designing and running better surveys,Continue reading… Prune, tune, postpone, explain – to improve your questionnaire

How to improve the inevitable survey: SDinGov21 workshop

Caroline Jarrett 4 December 2024 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

Surveys That Work – the Rosenfeld Review Podcast

Caroline Jarrett 1 November 2024 4 August 2021
Surveys That Work – the Rosenfeld Review Podcast

It was a pleasure to be interviewed about my new book, Surveys That Work,  by my publisher Lou Rosenfeld. We chatted for 32 minutes: Rosenfeld Review Podcast: Surveys That Work with Caroline Jarrett. Tune in to hear us talking about:Continue reading… Surveys That Work – the Rosenfeld Review Podcast

Surveys That Work: an excerpt from chapter 1, Goals

Caroline Jarrett 23 March 2022 15 July 2021
Surveys That Work: an excerpt from chapter 1, Goals

Have you heard that my book is available from Rosenfeld Media? Surveys that work: A practical guide for designing and running better surveys. In the book, you’ll find a seven-step process for designing, running, and reporting on a survey: GoalsContinue reading… Surveys That Work: an excerpt from chapter 1, Goals

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

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