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Absolutely Everything You Need To Know About Form Design
Getting ready for Giving Tuesday is about more than Facebook ads and email blasts. It’s also a good time to make sure potential donors aren’t so baffled by your donation form that they fail to complete it. This article about web forms is long and heavy on the usability jargon, but don’t let that scare you off! It’s really just a fancy way to describe the effectiveness and satisfaction of users when trying to achieve specific goals on your site. I really like the screenshots of good and bad form design. I also enjoyed the writer’s tip about forms following the same logic as a conversation: “For example, wouldn’t it be weird to ask someone their name only after having asked a number of other questions?”