{"id":171,"date":"2013-03-28T07:16:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T07:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2019-01-03T10:07:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T10:07:44","slug":"why-surveys-should-be-mobile-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/why-surveys-should-be-mobile-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Surveys Should be Mobile Friendly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Responsive design is not just the in thing in tech world  today. It\u2019s the need of the time. Life is too fast-paced to wait till your computer  starts up properly. People prefer entertainment and communication they can  enjoy without getting stuck with a desktop for hours. <\/p>\n<p>Same thing goes for survey taking. People want to take  surveys on their phones and iPads which they can attempt on the go. According  to a survey, there is a 107 percent increase in taking surveys on a mobile  device. Even though, all surveyors understand the value of mobile friendly  surveys, many still haven\u2019t taken measures to make their surveys compatible for  a phone device<\/p>\n<p>The SurveyCrest website, hasn\u2019t incorporated this responsive  element yet but we are working on it like anything. Rest assured you will be  reaping the benefits of this technological advancement very soon. Meanwhile, we  thought of enlightening our readers on why this change is necessary in the  first place.<\/p>\n<h2>The Advantages of Responsive Surveys<\/h2>\n<p>The greatest advantage of taking surveys on a mobile device  is that you can attempt surveys on the go; which means, as many surveys as you want,  as long as you are connected to the internet. You can take surveys while having  coffee at a restaurant sitting in an art gallery. You can enjoy fresh air while  taking surveys, reducing the fatigue it might bring if you work continuously.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the obvious benefit, mobile friendly surveys can  be a lot more fun than their desktop versions. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can take them with friends. Take suggestions from them, suggest surveys to them. And show more people, live, how interesting survey taking can be.<\/li>\n<li>Since mobile friendly survey can\u2019t be long, it doesn\u2019t take much time to attempt one. You can take more surveys in less time.<\/li>\n<li>As many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>online survey tools<\/strong><\/a> can detect when you take a survey on mobile device, you can choose to deliver a different version of your survey to each type of respondent, keeping all the branding, images, and multimedia you want on the desktop version of your survey and the simple and clean version for mobile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>Suggestions to Improve the Mobile Survey Experience<\/h2>\n<p>There are few things you can take care of to make your  mobile surveys more attractive:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep minimum  visual distractions.<\/li>\n<li>Keep the images small not only because they don\u2019t fit on a small screen but also because they take longer to download on slow data connections.<\/li>\n<li>Use the option of Logic to minimize the number of questions.<\/li>\n<li>For mobile friendly surveys, keep the number of questions on one page to one ideally.<\/li>\n<li>Use the basic question types such as Radio Buttons, Checkboxes and Single-Line Open Text.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responsive design is not just the in thing in tech world today. 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