Web forms are one of the most important interactions users will have on your website. They are used for all kinds of critical situations: registrations, newsletter subscriptions, contact forms to obtain additional information, purchases, etc.
These web forms will always be part of the main objectives of any company and will be one of the final steps for the user when it comes to achieving the conversions we desire. For this reason, it is vitally important to take special care when designing and developing these sections on our website.
From La Teva Web, your web design agency in Barcelona , we have prepared in this article a series of tips and rules to follow to achieve the most brilliant and successful web form designs.
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7 Golden Rules for Web Form Design
Ask only for essential data
Reducing the fields required on forms can be difficult, but it pays off. By eliminating unnecessary fields, you can save users valuable time and increase the success rate of task completion or conversion.
A form that asks for a lot of information can scare off lazy users. A tip: in the case of contact denmark telegram data forms, combine the “Subject” and “Message” into a single field.
Save user typing time
By asking for only the essential data, we will make our contact forms less burdensome, but minimizing the number of input fields is sometimes not enough. We must pay special attention to the effort that the user makes when entering data into our forms.
Typing data is time-consuming (even more so on mobile) and more prone to human error, not to mention that many users will lose interest in filling out a form if they suddenly find themselves having to type an entire paragraph. Minimizing typing, reducing the number of options, using predefined answers or drop-down buttons can all be good ways to get a user to fill out a form quickly and without problems.
Bet on calls to action
Encourage the user to fill out the fields, provide additional information, explain the requirements for each field (such as passwords), help them complete it and, above all, maintain a pleasant conversation with them in which a series of concise questions are answered.
By helping the user as much as possible, we will ensure that they complete the form more quickly and easily, and at the same time we will reduce the possible errors that may arise during the process.
Differentiate between mandatory and non-mandatory fields
It is important that the user knows which fields are optional, so that they can skip them if they wish. As we have already mentioned, if they are not necessary, it may not be necessary to request them in the form (You can always request them later)
Avoid the restore fields button
The Reset Fields button was widely used in the past, but it is practically useless. The risk of deleting all the fields entered by accident greatly outweighs the unlikely need to fill in the fields