Design your way

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

It is important to be aware of the fact that the design of a website can mean a lot. It only takes a few minor UI modifications to an existing platform to create a bigger and better first impression.

It is still very common for internet users to look for standard form interfaces when they want to interact with the website. This is why it is so important to include well designed forms within your website.

Of similar value is the log in box which new visitors will use to register with your website, sign up for a weekly or monthly newsletter, or subscribe to a mailing list. In other words, input fields and other form interfaces can be an essential tool for your business – good form design is invaluable.

Whilst they tend to be under-appreciated, web based forms and interfaces are usually the real stars of high quality landing pages. They are the focal point for all the data provided by leads and purchasers and they allow you to start pushing both of these targets further down the sales funnel.

The success and quality of your website will inevitably affect the number of sales and conversions that you receive. In terms of web forms, it is a good idea to err on the side of brevity and convenience – visitors like the simplicity of web forms and form snippets, but they do not want to spend a long time filling them out and submitting them.

On the other hand, there is some evidence to suggest that slightly longer forms lead to higher quality leads, so it is worth trying to get a nice balance between brevity and valuable content. They should be easy to use and fairly visible, but not to the point of being annoying. They should be simple to navigate, but never dull to interact with.

If you adhere to these guidelines, you should begin to see your conversion numbers soar. It is time to disregard the traditional ‘point and click’ interface, because good form design is everything. The next time that you need to design engaging information or an online form, or create some interesting form code snippets, think about more than just adding some fancy CSS gimmicks.

Natural Language Form with Custom Input Elements

Natural Language Form with Custom Input Elements

An experimental form that uses natural language instead of the usual form display. Values are entered using custom input elements.

Animated Sign Up Flow

Animated Sign Up Flow

A pricing table that animates into a sign up form once the user selects a plan. If your checkout process is quite simple, an alternative approach would be to animate the pricing table, and show the checkout form right away, in the same page. This is what we tried to achieve with today’s snippet.

Morphing Buttons Concept

Morphing Buttons Concept

Some inspiration for a morphing button concept where the action element (button) morphs into a component. The examples show different types of components, i.e. fullscreen overlay, modal window, sidebar and more.

Skeuocard

Skeuocard

Skeuocard progressively enhances credit card inputs to provide a skeuomorphic interface.

Minimal Form Interface

Minimal Form Interface

A very simplistic form interface that shows only one text input at a time and reveals the next input with a subtle transition. The concept is based on the form at the bottom of the PageLanes website.

Card

Card

Make your credit card form better in one line of code. Card works as a drop in addition to your current credit card form. No need edit input names or HTML — you can leave everything as is.

Login/Logout animation concept

See the Pen Login/Logout animation concept by Nikolay Talanov (@suez) on CodePen.

Simple Morphing Search

Simple Morphing Search

A simple effect idea for a search input that morphs into a fullscreen overlay. The idea is to enlarge the search input and show some relevant content or search results.

Contact Form

Contact Form

There are some optional features (i.e. floating labels) that can be easily removed in case you want the form to be simpler. We included all common form elements like radio buttons, checkboxes, select, error messages etc.

Material Design Input Text

See the Pen Material Design Input Text by Ben Mildren (@mildrenben) on CodePen.

Fullscreen Form Interface

Fullscreen Form Interface

An experimental fullscreen form concept where the idea is to allow distraction-free form filling with some fancy animations when moving between form fields.

Responsive Newsletter Form

Responsive Newsletter Form

A minimal and responsive newsletter form with the addition of some subtle CSS3 animations to enrich the user experience.

UX trick for email input

See the Pen UX trick for email input by Ben Mildren (@mildrenben) on CodePen.

Email Form Animation

See the Pen Email Form Animation by Hans Engebretsen (@hans) on CodePen.

Animation using an css made flat envelope icon to present an email form – Mostly messing with timing and delaying changing the z-index.

Inspiration for Text Input Effects

Inspiration for Text Input Effects

Form inputs offer a great opportunity to add some subtle and interesting effects to a web page. They are elements that your user will interact with at some point and making them fun to use can enhance the experience. We are used to the default form resembling its paper counterpart but in the digital world we can be more creative. In this article you will see some experimental styles and effects for text inputs with you.

CSS Search Field Animation

See the Pen CSS Search Field Animation by Sebastian Popp (@sebastianpopp) on CodePen.

Sign In Form

See the Pen Sign In Form by Jambonlatex (@jbltx) on CodePen.

Login/Signup Modal Window

Login/Signup Modal Window

This modal window allows users to login/signup into your website. Once opened, the user can easily switch from one form to the other, or select the reset password option.

Single input 3D form

See the Pen Single input 3D form by Gilberto Olimpio (@golimpio) on CodePen.



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