Survey Kit

Tech stack: React, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS v4, AWS

Links: Visit survey-kit.com · Documentation · View LinkedIn Post · View GitHub repository · View demo (template)

Survey Kit was motivated by strain on the UK’s national survey infrastructure: lengthy household surveys are experiencing lower response rates, which weakens statistics used for economic and social policy. The retreat of instruments such as the Labour Force Survey (LFS) has increased reliance on less direct sources; improving survey design for contemporary devices is therefore material.

Declining participation reflects survey fatigue, formats that reach some demographic groups poorly, and a poor fit between long questionnaires and typical mobile and web use.

The framework addresses this with a mobile-first, one-question-per-page model and interaction patterns closer to common applications than to a single long form. The implementation is as documented for @survey-kit/core (renderers including SurveyRenderer and ChatSurveyRenderer, state hooks, types, validation) and @survey-kit/registry (buttons, inputs, layouts, and chat components). A template application in the monorepo demonstrates form-based and chat-based modes and runs locally under Vite.

Surveys are defined in JSON (stages, groups, pages, questions). The library supplies navigation, required-field validation, progress, conditional logic, localStorage persistence for recovery of answers, and accessibility work aligned with WCAG 2.2 AA. Deployment requires React 18+ and Tailwind CSS v4 in addition to the packages; the installation guide describes installation and import checks.

The published template demonstration and documentation record the current release. The objective for respondents, researchers, and developers is unchanged: reduce respondent burden, improve completion, and improve the quality of participation.