CategoryForms

November 8, 2011 — In this article, we’ll provide guidelines that have been crafted from usability testing and actual complaints made to customer support personnel by disgruntled users. Read more…

October 4, 2011 — Improving your forms, 404 pages and error messages will improve your website’s overall user experience. In this article, Lara Swanson walks you through how to add error tracking using Google Analytics, and how to assemble the data and analyze it. Read more…

August 22, 2011 — Luke Wroblewski shares some examples of how something like logging into websites, could benefit from new ideas and design improvements. Read more…

June 27, 2011 — A number of techniques and elements can be used in Web forms to turn them from abject failures into successful conversion points. Shawn Borsky brings us some interesting examples and useful guidelines for Web form design. Read more…

May 5, 2011 — In this article, we present a couple of new ideas to design sign-up and log-in forms that might be useful for your next designs. Find some innovative techniques that could make your forms simpler and more efficient to fill out. Read more…

March 11, 2010 — Mobile forms tend to have significantly more constraints than their desktop cousins: screens are smaller; connections are slower; text entry is trickier; the list goes on. So, limiting the number of forms in your mobile applications and websites is generally a good idea. When you do want input from users on mobile devices, radio buttons, checkboxes, select menus and lists tend to work much better than open text fields. But constraints breed innovation, and mobile forms are no different. The limitations of mobile devices have forced developers and designers to find new ways to allow users to input data faster and more easily. Thanks to the modern solutions covered in this article, the mobile space may not be a place to avoid forms much longer. Instead, it may become the place to encourage them. Read more…

July 7, 2009 — Ideally, users will fill the web form with necessary information and finish their job successfully. However, people often make mistakes. This is where web form validation comes into play. Read more…

July 8, 2008 — Last week we have presented first findings of our web forms survey. The main objective of the survey was to provide designers and developers with some intuition of how effective web forms are designed; we also presented some guidelines of how an effective and user-friendly web form can be achieved. Read more…

July 4, 2008 — If you want to maximize the revenue of your service you need to maximize completion rates of your web forms. Unless you have some revolutionary ideas to impress your visitors at first glance, it is not enough to simply enable users to sign up on your site. To make it possible for the service to reach a maximal exposure we, designers, need to provide users with a good user experience. We need to invite them, describe to them how the service works, explain to them why they should fill in the form and suggests the benefits they’ll get in return. And, of course, we should also make it extremely easy for them to participate. Read more…