Survey Questions

I used this resource as a guide for my questionnaire design.

This document basically covers every part of designing questionnaires from defining the research to types of questions and methods of conducting the survey.

I was aiming to collect the following data:
· Where do these people access their Internet?
· How many survey respondents have used a web directory before?
· If they have used an online business directory before, did they experience any difficulty using it?
· Was there a favourite feature?
· Whether they have used an online business directory or not, will they be willing to use one that is specifically designed and lists the local businesses in their area?

Survey Design

The Steps in my Survey Design Project

Establishing the goals of the survey
I wanted to learn what features people use more on a web directory. The choices I provided for my survey respondents were;
· Using the search box
· The navigation system
· The A-Z categories or none of the above


Determining the survey sample
I chose to distribute my survey questionnaire to some colleagues of my husband in his office.
The reason I chose this particular location and group was that these office employees are located where most of the businesses are. They go out to lunch, run errands and/or visit local dentists etc in the same area that I am building the directory for.


Determining the survey method
The survey questionnaires were printed on two sheets of A4 paper with a total of 12 questions and a few lines extra for comments.


Creating my questionnaire
See next post


Pre-testing my questionnaire
I asked some family and friends to read and then try and answer the questionnaire in order to identify any major flaws.


Distributing the survey
The survey questionnaires were distributed to each participant individually.

Module 4 task

See what other newspaper images you can find online and see what design practices make them easy to read. Which newspapers seem easier to read? Why? What conventions can you find?


The Times Online from UK
I like this website. It displays a big image of the most important news of the day followed by a slightly smaller headline and then few smaller headlines to show the hierarchy of news from the most important to the less important in comparison.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/


My rating for this site: 5 out of 10






BBC News
It does display news article according to their significance, sections are visually divided very well but the feature I find very useful in such a large site is the little map on top of the section menu under the logo. It is clickable and visitors can easily switch to view news in another region in the world.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/


My rating for this site: 6 out of 10





News.com.au
This is my favourite of the 3 websites. There are clear visual clues of what is the most important news of the day. Again, each article is placed in a good hierarchical order to show what is important after the main story. Another usable feature is the list of breaking news. most stories have little images next to them and this gives a visual clue to what the visitor might be interested in or not interested in. All sections are divided clearly into different categories, there is less chance of getting lost.

One of the things I hate about news sites is that they display a video like it is an image and when you click on it there is a video and it starts automatically. News.com.au has a separate list for videos with a heading and little ‘play video’ signs on each image, makes my live easier!

http://www.news.com.au/


My rating for this site: 8 out of 10