A user interacts with your site, awesome. A user fills out your form, even better. That’s the goal right? Because having the user fill out a form improves conversion rates. In this article I will in-form you (get it!) about best practices for website forms in terms of layout, validation and accessibility.
Layout
Form layout is crucial to the user’s experience in efficiently filling it out. When designing and developing the form remember to keep in mind structure, labeling, placeholder text and action buttons.
Structure
Forms should be presented in a single column layout to prevent the user from interpreting the fields inconsistently. Having more than one column interrupts the vertical momentum the user gets while moving down the form. Use logical sequencing in a way that makes sense to the user and have them fill out the most common fields first. For example, the user should be filling out their name, before they fill out their credit card information. …
A user interacts with your site, awesome. A user fills out your form, even better. That’s the goal right? Because having the user fill out a form improves conversion rates. In this article I will in-form you (get it!) about best practices for website forms in terms of layout, validation and accessibility.
Layout
Form layout is crucial to the user’s experience in efficiently filling it out. When designing and developing the form remember to keep in mind structure, labeling, placeholder text and action buttons.
Structure
Forms should be presented in a single column layout to prevent the user from interpreting the fields inconsistently. Having more than one column interrupts the vertical momentum the user gets while moving down the form. Use logical sequencing in a way that makes sense to the user and have them fill out the most common fields first. For example, the user should be filling out their name, before they fill out their credit card information. …
When creating a website or application, having an understanding of the user is the most important part of creating a good user experience, since they are the ones who are going to be using it! At Made By Munsters, we get a better understanding of the users through an Inception Workshop. The following are a few techniques that allow us to do so.
User Personas
In order to solve a problem for our user, we need to be able to define who the user is. User personas are created to give a general understanding of the types of users that directly or indirectly interact with the product. …
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