Designing Forms

After reading the four articles about designing forms, I learned new information that will help me when designing my own form. One important thing to keep in mind while designing a form is to create a "user-friendly" form that strives toward legibility and readability. In order to have a clear understanding of what information is wanted/needed, the designer of the forms must design a form that is visually clear and concise. Some general guidelines to follow when creating a form are to: use one typeface. Switching the typeface will often confuse the reader and create a less legible form. Using lowercase letters are important as well because uppercase letters can reduce the legibility of the form. I think when creating a form, in general, one should stay more on the professional side than artistic. A form is used to analyze and gather information, and anything that is "to all over the place"will defer the reader from properly filling out the correct information.

Specific guidelines that I will try to apply to my work are:
1.) Unity
2.) Harmony
3.) Clear/Concise
4.) Simplicity
5.) Rhythm

Although we already learned about this, the alphabet and a half theory was really interesting. In the article, "Visual Communication for Forms Design" there was an example of the same sequence of words in two different formats. After reading both, I found that the longer sequence was easier to read, however, this may not be the case for everyone.