Lets be honest. Sign up forms suck.
As designers we often get carried away with how a sign up form looks and forget about the user experience. Border here, rounded corners there, maybe a hint of shadow…
Truth is users don’t care about how it looks. They care about getting through the form as quickly as possible. [...]
What happens when you go on a ride at Disney Land? Apart from queuing for ages, you get onboard, enjoy the experience, get off and leave. But you don’t just leave. They have carefully designed a next step so that as you leave, you walk through the gift shop, subtly encouraging you to spend more [...]
When you’re designing a form most of you will mark required fields with an asterisk (*). Then you’ll add something like “* Required fields” to the top of the form. But surely we now live in a world where everyone already knows this. Do we really need to include a legend indicating what the asterisk [...]
This is something I’m curious about and something I’d like to get your feedback on. Do you need to confirm passwords on sign up?
Call to action buttons are the buttons that you, as a web designer, want all your users to click on when they land on your page. Usually they’ll be a link to a download, signup or sale.
Seth Godin (The Big Red Fez) calls them bananas and your users are the monkeys. The objective is for [...]