Form Design Best Practices: 15 Tips to Boost Conversions and UX
This website shows companies how to implement forms on their website to boost conversions and improve user experience. It shows users that simple, yet aesthetically pleasing and user friendly forms are the way to go. The first step they recommend is being simple and straightforward; this means to just ask the necessary questions. Instead of asking ten questions, a form can simply be reduced to three or four questions. Using one column and aligning text to the left can also make forms look neat. User experience can also be improved by arranging the questions from easiest to hardest, auto-fill browsers, and address possible user concerns with summary boxes. Another feature they recommend that I personally like when filling out forms is the progress bar. This makes it so I'm not constantly thinking 'when is this form going to be over' while I'm filling it out.
Designing Efficient Web Forms: On Structure, Inputs, Labels and Actions
Nick Babich, the author of this article shows users how minor changes can significantly increase usability. He talks about the five main components of a typical form which is structure, input fields, field labels, action button, and feedback. Other forms may also have the assistance and validation component. In structure, Nick tells users to ask only what's required. Similar to the what the article above suggests when reducing ten questions to three or four. Another suggestion Nick gave was the optional and required fields, which I had learned to create in this lesson. A few more suggestions I really like when filling out a form that Nick suggested web pages implement are the "show password" option, the don't ask users to repeat their email address, and placeholder text. I think these three suggestions are helpful to improve user experience.