Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Three rounds of user testing

I've just finished three rounds of user testing of obsurvey, with incremental improvements each time. The tests show that new users have a much easier time using obsurvey now. We've fixed some minor bugs, improved the tooltips, made selection of predefined ratings in rating questions into a wizard, increased the undo/redo icons visibility, and many other small improvements. I hope you like the changes.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

New minor release "Ratings"

I've just released a minor update to obsurvey. Now when you insert a rating question a wizard pops up that lets you choose between the predefined rating scales.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Usertesting is great.

I just updated obsurvey with some layout changes in the survey editor. Now the add question buttons,  options buttons and bolloontips are in red and a much larger font. This should make it easier for new users.
I conducted 3 user tests through usertesting.com, I had 3 videoes, in a couple of hours and based on the feedback for these usertests I made the changes.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Minor release "reporting on rating questions"

I've just released an update to obsurvey.
Now rating type questions have more detailed reporting, showing the votes for each rating for each question in a graph.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Minor release "page up/down"

I just released a minor update to obsurvey. Now you can navigate the survey with the "page up" and "page down" keys as well as arrow keys.
Also pressing Ctrl+Home jumps to the beginning of the survey and Ctrl+End jumps to the end of the survey.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Minor release "results"

I've just released an update to the results page, It now uses a different charting for select one and select several type questions. It's not perfect, but the charts look better than the old ones.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Minor release "click edit"

By request I've changed the editor a bit. Now you have to click a question before all the move/delete/add buttons appear. The page seems a bit less busy when you move the mouse around - you have to click a bit more now, but I  think it's worth the tradeoff.

Friday, December 11, 2009

Minor release "powered by obsurvey"

I've made som small changes to obsurvey.
Now the options for a question are a bit easier to spot.
And new surveys get a "powerd by obsurvey" text, you can delete it if you want. Leave it in, if you want to support obsurvey.

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Minor release "answers the last 30 days"

I've been working with the results page.
You can now see how many answers there are to "select several" multiple choice questions. And you can choose if you want to show a percentage of the number of answers or percentage of total number of votes.
Also, you can now see a graph of how many answers your survey has recieved in the last 30 days.

Monday, December 07, 2009

Minor release "page navigation v2.0"

I just released another minor update to obsurvey.
The page navigater that let's you jump between pages has been updated. It now shows a preview of the page on mouseover.
Furthermore, when previewing a survey you can now also navigate between pages using the page navigator.

Saturday, December 05, 2009

Minor release "Embed update"

I've just released a minor update to obsurvey. Now the embedded iframes look nicer for people without JavaScript or a mainstream browser.

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

New minor release "Easy results"

I just released a minor update of obsurvey. Now you can get to a surveys results, directly from the "my surveys" main page. If the survey only has one answer collection you are taken directly to the results. If not you are taken to the answer collection list.
Clicking "Collect answers" will now jump directly to the publish survey-page if the survey only has one answer collection. If not you are taken to the answer collection list.
Notice, the only way to create more than one answer collection for a survey is to click on "View collections" on the my surveys main page. And the click "New answer collection"

The reason for these changes was that several users have had problems, where they would unintentionally create a lot of answer collections for a survey, when what they wanted to do was reuse the one answer collection they had already created. Reusing answer collections is now the default behavior.

Also, some of the subpages in obsurvey have improved with additional navigation buttons.