February 02, 2004

Survey Advice

Jakob Nielsen turns his attention to online surveys and concludes that shorter is better. He also points to the most useful survey question, as identified by the Harvard Business Review: "How likely is it that you could recommend [X] to a friend or colleague?"

I'd love to see more resources online about improving surveys. I think that creating an easy-to-use and meaningful survey question is something of an art. Its pretty easy to do it wrong. Anyway, the next time I need to create a survey, I'm picking up a copy of Improving Survey Questions first.