How to Design an Awful Looking Sign-Up Form, 10 Step Guide

Jan 25th/2012     No Comments

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When signing up for something – whether you’re opening a new bank account, registering for an interesting new app or trying to buy a flight – you want the process to be simple and quick. Speedy, painless sign-up forms help to increase conversion rates and keep visitors happy. Yet, in despite of that, there are countless examples throughout the web of sites that have painfully dreadful and frustrating forms that end up making you feel bad about the whole process. These forms are usually found on archaic, badly designed sites and there’s an unusual trend – the bigger the company, the more likely the form is to be awkward and needlessly complicated, such as: When you enter in Google the search term “beautiful Sign-up forms” you’ll find about 1,370,000,000 results that include an endless list of showcase countdowns resources on the 20,17,7 and even 100 Best Sign-up forms, so why do what’s already been done? On the contraire this post will, count one by one the bad practices when designing a sign-up form, if maybe this way the web designers will learn their lesson and finally up –date their sign-up forms. Because even up to this day when there’s so many beautiful web resources available for web developers, you can still bump into long, complicated and heavy sign-up forms that just simply suck! So, there you go, if you want to create a terrible, awkward and frustrating sign-up form, here we’ve given you a 10 step guide to go about it. Read more