Designing “Shorter” Web Forms

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  • lowell

    where’s the rest of the article? or was that ‘it’?

  • http://www.designvsart.com/ Alexis Brion

    Hi Lowell,

    I wanted to make a point on how splitting a form could make it look shorter. If you are interested in web form design, let me pass you 2 articles I wrote before:

    “Preventing Errors Filling Forms” on how making a web form easy to fill could encourage users to fill all the information you require.
    Read it here: http://www.designvsart.com/blog/2008/01/12/preventing-errors-filling-forms/

    “Simple Forms Improve Usability” with another example of bad design.
    Read it here: http://www.designvsart.com/blog/2007/11/26/simple-forms-improve-usability/

    Feel free to share another link!

    Thanks!

    Alex

  • http://stever.ca Stever

    It was always a toss up for me as to whether a long form should be one page or split up into separate pages. Of course the long form looks daunting to fill out, but I was worried breaking it up into pages would mean added steps, more hoops to make the user jump through.

    Besides your test users expressing more displeasure with a long form, it would be interesting to see the differences in form abandonment rates tested on real traffic.