13 February 2008
Streamline your forms with widgets
Posted by Mikhail Esteves under: General .
We all know that people don’t like filling out forms online, including the folks who design and build them. Most good web designers working today know to keep them as concise and painless as possible. A minimalist sign up process on your shiny new web app is sure to produce a higher sign up rate than one that asks for a dozen pieces of irrelevant information.
Sometimes, however, you’ll want to develop a form that truly benefits from a large number of options. Let’s design a search form for a fictional used automobile site. Presenting every option in your database would probably be messy and intimidating. Just one section might look something like this