The Form Book: Best Practice in Creating Forms for Printed and Online Use

Description

Filling in forms affects all our lives, yet as an aspect of design, forms are often overlooked. This unique sourcebook shows what good form design can achieve. Order forms, invoices, applications and questionnaires should be designed to focus on the essentials and so make the communication of information faster and simpler. But if a form is too complicated, confusing or obscure, it can become a barrier to communication, wasting time and money and harming perceptions of a business or brand. Successful forms do exist - efficient, streamlined and even stylish - but they are a real challenge to create. Packed with practical advice and inspiring ideas, The Form Book brings together a comprehensive collection of great designs for both print and digital media, showcasing a range of thoughtful, elegant or witty approaches to form creation.

Borries Schwesinger is a freelance information, book and corporate designer. He is particularly interested in exploring design principles of forms and other standardised means of communication.

One of the designer's roles is to turn disorder into order, particularly when it comes to everyday documents like forms for banks, insurance companies, utilities, the census and so much more. When they are logically, rationally and, yes, handsomely designed, it could mean the difference between minutes and hours of labor. This is why The Form Book: Creating Forms for Printed and Online Use, by Borries Schwesinger, is so necessary. Not only is this an invaluable handbook for designers, it should open the eyes of anyone who produces forms.-- "The New York Times Book Review"