Simple and elegant word forms, electronic or otherwise

Business forms are the key to engage a user on a website but mostly these forms are poorly crafted or designed, which results in leaving the user uninterested. Although they are the tools of gathering critical information from the user, they must seem less taxing for the user and not be discouraging.

Before getting into the design of the form, analyze how short and precise a form could be designed. Never design an elaborate form, as the user might tend to get bored of going through a long form. It is always a good idea to break the form into sections, like asking personal information, education, occupation, other interests etc. This ensures that user gets a break before moving on to the next section. A form should be at the most designed in single or double columns for conserving space.

There are many challenges confronted while designing a form and remember that you do not have to handle it alone. With the assistance of an expert forms designing company, your load can be taken off from your shoulders. The objective of the form has to be well understood. Then it comes to length of the form, a long boring form is a huge put off, the most recommended size would be an A4. For electronic forms, the right kind of buttons, boxes, and links have to be selected, so that the user’s actions serve the purpose. As much as possible care has to be taken that user does not have to fill in the same information in more than one place.

Remember! All you have to do is to design one form that is perfect and the applicant can use it again and again. Being able to reuse information already input is a huge benefit, also any changes on part of the user must be accommodated. They must be able to edit what they have entered. Even though the form is developed and launched, changes to the form fields should be possible for the betterment of the business. This way, there is no need to recreate a form each time there is an addition or change needs to be done.

Headings, disclaimers, and other related information on a form need to be presented neatly and clearly to the user. Adequate warnings and reminders must be in place before user submits, this ensures that the information is double checked by the user. Before the final submission, user must be able to edit any changes required. Likewise the submit button needs to be active only when the form is filled in the right format.

To make your form simple and elegant, all you need is proper planning and execution.