What & why

We all hate forms. Form design is difficult & requires a lot of attention to detail.

There are lots of resources available for form design—it’s just difficult to figure out what practices are good & bad.

Let’s crowd-source the knowledge we need to make the best forms.

Set up

1. Form into pairs
2. Download the bad form design
3. Use your search-foo to find best practices for forms & error messages
4. Write out how to improve the form
5. We’ll discuss the results together

Some considerations

• Location of labels in relation to inputs
• Size & clarity of buttons & fields
• Colours
• Language & text
• Accessibility (screen readers, colour blindness)
• Obviousness of errors