Comments on: Designing “Shorter” Web Forms http://www.designvsart.com/blog/2008/10/02/designing-shorter-web-forms/ The ultimate blog to Design vs Art Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:08:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Stever http://www.designvsart.com/blog/2008/10/02/designing-shorter-web-forms/#comment-5861 Stever Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:45:29 +0000 http://www.designvsart.com/blog/2008/10/02/designing-shorter-web-forms/#comment-5861 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. 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.

]]> By: Alexis Brion http://www.designvsart.com/blog/2008/10/02/designing-shorter-web-forms/#comment-5860 Alexis Brion Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:48:26 +0000 http://www.designvsart.com/blog/2008/10/02/designing-shorter-web-forms/#comment-5860 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 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

]]> By: lowell http://www.designvsart.com/blog/2008/10/02/designing-shorter-web-forms/#comment-5859 lowell Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:37:58 +0000 http://www.designvsart.com/blog/2008/10/02/designing-shorter-web-forms/#comment-5859 where's the rest of the article? or was that 'it'? where’s the rest of the article? or was that ‘it’?

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