Question

a) What are the most important principals for designing a good input form?

b) What would you specifically avoid in designing an input form?

c) Provide examples, good and bad

Answer 1

a) What are the most important principals for designing a good input form?

•     It should be simple and easy to fill
•     It should be consistent
•     It should be straight forward
•     It should have auto completion
•     Group similar input together (like first name and last name)

b) What would you specifically avoid in designing an input form?

• Avoid unneccessary drop-down menus
• Avoid multiple buttons
• Date of birth should be a single picker instead of three separate drop downs.
• Try to avoid optional form fields.

c) Provide examples, good and bad

Good design : The below design to select a date is a good design because it uses a single picker, it i more user friendly, efficient and fast.

      

Bad design : The below design is to select a date is a bad design because it uses three pickers and hence it is time taking, less efficient and more complex for a user.