[webproducers] Re: Best survey/quiz site out there

On Apr 21, 2009, at 6:54 AM, MJ Ray wrote:

> Survey Monkey seems to require javascript and good eyesight, despite  
> their lovely PDF saying they comply with disability discrimination  
> laws. doodle.ch and Google Spreadsheets are better, although I don't  
> know if they do cosmo-style multiple-exit quizes either.

You know what would be helpful? When statements like "X is better" are  
made, some clarification as to what actually makes it better. It's  
called context. The above statement provides no context as to what  
makes doodle.ch and google spreadsheets better. There's also Survs (a  
new player on the block).

For example, for me Survey monkey is like Windows on a bad hair day? 
the overall design is klunky and ghetto (and not in a good way). The  
visual style of the survey pages is very dated, leaving me with a  
feeling of "why am I paying for this?" Also, the data analysis kind  
stinks. Adding filters is clunky, unintuitive and essentially useless  
outside of querying things like "how many people with variable X?"  
Want to add multiple filters? Yeah, doesn't work so well. Just export  
to Excel or Numbers and do it there, which is a hassle.

Survs looks promising. The visual design and interface for setting up  
surveys looks much nicer and intuitive. Additionally, the overall  
design is more modern. I haven't gotten a chance to work w/the data  
analysis side of things yet, but looking forward to it.


Cheers!

Todd Zaki Warfel
Principal Design Researcher
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