5 UI Tips To Design Better Forms
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In this week’s newsletter, I will show you 5 super useful UI design tips so you can design world-class forms.
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Forms help users accomplish a wide range of goals. Whether it is creating an account or completing a purchase, our goal is to design effective forms which allow the users to complete them quickly and without confusion. It is obvious that we want to have a high completion rate, and some practices can help increase completion rates. Let’s see these.
Limit The Number of Questions
Only ask questions needed for the purpose of the form to keep it short. Long forms with multiple questions can overwhelm the user, and we don’t want that to happen.
Use Progress Bar
As I mentioned, long forms can overwhelm the user. So what we can do when we need to create longer forms? A great way to increase the completion rate for longer forms is to divide the question into different sections. For example “Payment method”, “Billing”, and “Shipping”. If you do this, you should indicate to the user where they are and how much more they have to do to complete the form. This can be done in a variety of ways with progress bars, percentages, and steps counters.
Order of Questions
It is generally a good idea to start with an introduction, asking for the user’s name and maybe some basic contact information, then move on to increasingly more difficult or sensitive questions.
Divide The Form
Grouping related information by dividing a form into clearly labeled sections or multiple pages (see “Use Progress Bar”) can help users compartmentalize and make sense of what they are being asked.
Formatting
Inputs should be arranged into a single column so users can read the form in a straight line down the page. Placing multiple columns next to each other disrupt vertical momentum, and can cause users to incorrectly group fields together.
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