Styling Survey: Styling using Themes Library

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Styling your surveys is now simpler and more effective with the upgraded Themes Library in the Survey Builder. This feature allows you to quickly apply pre-designed themes from the library for a polished and professional look. You can also design and save your own themes in My Themes to maintain consistent branding and easily reuse them across multiple surveys. Additionally, access to Shared Themes promotes team collaboration and ensures visual consistency across projects. Each theme includes all customizable styling options, guaranteeing a unified and refined survey design every time.

Business Use Cases

  • Efficient Survey Creation with Predefined Themes: Using predefined themes in the survey builder allows you to effortlessly style your surveys without manual modifications. Just select a theme from the library that matches your branding, and your survey will immediately have a sleek, professional look. This not only saves you time but also guarantees visual consistency, enabling you to concentrate on collecting insights, particularly when facing tight deadlines.

  • Customization for Branding Consistency: Developing and utilizing personalized themes in the survey builder enables you to uphold uniform branding throughout all your projects. By adjusting components such as font styles and background hues to align with your brand identity, you can save the design as a reusable theme in My Themes. This feature allows you to effortlessly apply the same aesthetic to upcoming surveys with a simple click. If you are collaborating with a team, you can also share your theme to guarantee that everyone remains on the same page, enhancing teamwork and ensuring your surveys look professional and consistent with your brand.

  • Collaboration Across Teams: Custom themes enable you to customize the appearance and ambiance of your surveys to match their intended purpose and target audience. This can involve modifying the layout, selecting particular colors, or opting for a suitable font style. Once completed, these themes can be distributed to team members through the Shared Themes feature. This promotes a cohesive visual identity across all surveys, fosters collaboration, and guarantees a consistent presentation across various teams or regions.

Predefined themes save you time by allowing quick and easy survey styling without manual adjustments. With shared themes, teams can maintain consistent design standards across all surveys, regardless of who creates them. For more specific needs, you can create custom themes tailored to your brand guidelines, ensuring each survey reflects your organization’s identity. The result is a polished, professional appearance that enhances respondent engagement and reinforces trust.

Prerequisites

You must have survey creation rights to leverage this feature.

Setting Up Themes

Apply Themes from the library

  1. Go to Survey Builder and navigate to Themes in the right pane.

  2. Select a predefined theme (e.g., Floral, Professional) and confirm to apply theme.

Create a Custom Theme

  1. Go to the Styling section and customize your survey's appearance in the Styling section by adjusting elements such as question typography, background colors or images, and borders. These options allow you to tailor the visual design to match your brand or create a specific look and feel for your audience.

  2. To save your configuration as a theme, click "Save As Theme" located in the Styling tab at the top.

  3. Go to Theme Details section and fill in the details:

    1. Theme Name: Enter a meaningful name.

    2. Theme Description: Enter a meaningful description to the theme.

    3. Share With: Select users and user groups to which you would want to provide permissions.

    4. Click Save Theme.

  4. To locate the theme that has been created and saved, choose My Themes from the dropdown menu.

Note: Library and shared themes cannot be edited directly.

Manage Themes

  • Edit: The edit option helps to modify the theme.

  • Share: Hover over the theme that you want to share and click the Share option and the user or user groups with whom you want to share the theme.

  • Delete: The delete option helps to delete the theme.

  • Clone: The clone option helps to create a copy of that theme.

  • Reset Button: Press the reset button at the top to restore the default styling and eliminate any active themes.

  • Add Theme(+): Click this option to add another theme.

  • For Presentation View: Within each theme category, you can easily find themes optimized for Presentation Mode by using the For Presentation View quick filter. This helps you quickly identify and apply themes best suited for the one-question-per-page, full-screen layout.

Preview

Use the Preview feature to ensure your survey appears consistent and visually appealing across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. This helps you verify that the layout, styling, and formatting work well on all screen sizes before publishing.

In order to test, you can start by selecting a theme from the Library and ensure that all styling configurations, such as fonts, backgrounds, and layout settings, are correctly applied throughout the survey. If you customize the design further, save it as a new theme and confirm that it appears under My Themes for easy reuse. To support collaboration and consistency across teams, share the saved theme with another user and verify that they can access and apply it from their Shared Themes section.


Best Practices

  • Apply a theme that aligns with the survey's goal.

  • Predefined themes are crafted by expert designers to ensure a polished and professional look. If you make any customizations after applying a theme, it's important to review the survey design to ensure consistency and that all visual elements still align with your intended style and branding.

FAQs

No, but you can apply it and save the customized version as a new theme under "My Themes."

No, you can save unlimited themes in "My Themes."

No, shared themes can only be applied, not modified. You and clone and modify the cloned version.