Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-up and Purchase
12 Mar 2010 - 4:35pm
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csurowiec
2010
I am creating a signup process for a paid-for service and am looking for best practices. I've found the following web resources but would like to understand the design patterns in a more structured manner. Can anyone recommend better reference material?
http://patterntap.com/tap/collection/forms
http://www.smileycat.com/design_elements/registration_forms/index.php?page=1
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/04/web-form-design-patterns-sign-up-forms/
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Luke wrobleskis book on web form design is an excellent resource.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d.html/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/175-1384105-9567007?a=1933820241
joshua porter has also done some excellent work around designing for sign up. http://www.slideshare.net/bokardo/designing-for-sign-up
hope that helps.
Alastair
"Forms that work" by Caroline Jarrett & Gerry Gaffney is also worth a look, though I also prefer Luke's book:
http://www.amazon.com/Forms-that-Work-Interactive-Technologies/dp/1558607102/ref=pd_sim_b_1
Luke's blog has also some more recent thoughts & findings (http://www.lukew.com/),
there are some interesting findings on abtests.com on the matter (http://www.abtests.com/browse/sign-up/),
37signals has a nice walkthrough the redesign of their highrise sign-up comparison chart (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1496-design-decisions-the-new-highrise-signup-chart),
and finally, Joshua Porter's "Designing for the Social Web" has some good thoughts on overcoming the sign-up hurdle (related online article: http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1216150).
Cheers,
Sebastian
ps. If you find further good sources from elsewhere, would post them in this thread?
Best practice # 1 is:
Allow the customer to make a purchase without signing-up.
A couple of relevant articles:
http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button
http://www.codegent.com/blog/2010/1/how_to_build_an_effective_sign_up_form
I'll add a +1 to "Forms that work" by Caroline Jarrett & Gerry Gaffney.
I have used this and it also provide some great ideas when prototype testing to help stakeholders see the benefit it designing for a better practice.
William Donovan
On 18 March 2010 18:05, Ivan_Burmistrov <contact@ixda.org> wrote: