Form Design
Description
Rare is the design project that doesn’t involve any forms anywhere along the line. From registration to ordering; from applications to updates; from brief to evaluation; forms will be a component of the overall design experience.
Forms are a unique class of interaction. Designing successful forms requires specialist knowledge and skill, drawing on a diverse number of fields including:
- psychology
- sociology
- graphic design
- linguistics
- information technology
- cognitive science
- business process engineering
- marketing
- communications
The team at Formulate spends all our time working with and researching forms, and we can barely keep up with the wealth of information. So how is a generalist user experience designer to do it, when their own field is changing so rapidly?
By attending this workshop:
This workshop is a distillation of the key principles and techniques for designing effective, efficient and satisfying forms, targeted at the user experience professional.
The workshop will build on the skills and knowledge you already have, while accommodating the wide range of backgrounds that UX designers have. Moreover, the content will be applicable to forms of any media, device, platform or operating system. Real-world examples and the use of your own forms – plus plenty of hands-on participation – will help ground concepts and fortify learning.
Whether you’re filling a knowledge gap, or taking your designs to the next level, this workshop will tangibly improve your practice of user experience design in just one, fun and engaging, day.
Workshop structure
This workshop will cover:
- What makes forms different
- Writing good questions
- Testing
- Visual design principles
- Making it flow
Outcomes
This workshop aims to give participants practical knowledge and techniques relating to the design of one particular class of interactions: forms.
Target audience
This workshop is aimed at people who already have some experience or knowledge of user experience design.
No technical expertise is required.
Materials provided
To minimise resource usage while maximising utility, all participants will be provided with a bound workbook containing:
- a series of easy-reference sheets for the content presented during the day (e.g. a page describing the six Gestalt principles of visual perception that apply to forms, a page describing Tourangeau’s questionanswering model from cognitive psychology, etc)
- copies of all slides shown during the workshop, four-to-a-page
- a list of recommended reading
- space for notes