Questionnaires are designed with the aim of either conducting a survey or taking the feedback from the customers about the product or service. To achieve the success the targeted aim, design questionnaire plays an important role. The design questionnaire have captured huge importance while conducting survey and collecting feedback from the customers because they are structured. There is hard and fast theoretical base to design a questionnaire, one has to guide himself about the dos and don’ts from the experience of the past.

Before you start to design questionnaire, you should know few basic things like objective of the design questionnaire, information you want to extract through questionnaire. There is difference between things you should know and those it would be nice to know. The basic principle of design questionnaire is to eliminate all unnecessary questions and just focus on the informative ones.

Maximize the chances of success through your design questionnaire by giving it an apt title, keep it short and simple, offer incentives(if appropriate), be creative by make design questionnaire attractive by looks, enclose stamp and envelope if appropriate. Make sure the target group of your design questionnaire covers the people of all ages, socio economic conditions, and genders. You may chose to give open ended or closed ended questions.

All the important questions should occupy top position in design questionnaire; avoid stat off with the embarrassing questions. Start with general questions and go deep into particular, and place the closed ended questions at first and move to open ended.

Take a look at Few Sample questionnaire Designs


Secret Santa Questionnaire