UI/UX Best Practices
Optimizing Form Design for Better User Experience
This prompt helps teams design forms that adhere to UI/UX best practices, reducing friction and improving completion rates. It focuses on creating clear, efficient, and accessible forms for various user needs.
Responsible:
Product Design
Accountable, Informed or Consulted:
Design, Product, Engineering
THE PREP
Creating effective prompts involves tailoring them with detailed, relevant information and uploading documents that provide the best context. Prompts act as a framework to guide the response, but specificity and customization ensure the most accurate and helpful results. Use these prep tips to get the most out of this prompt:
Define the purpose and target audience for the form.
Collect user feedback or analytics data about existing form completion challenges.
Review similar forms in competitor products or industry standards for inspiration.
THE PROMPT
Help optimize the design of a form for [specific purpose, e.g., user sign-up, feedback collection, checkout]. Ensure the form adheres to UI/UX best practices by focusing on:
Clarity: Using clear labels, concise instructions, and placeholder text to guide users.
Simplicity: Reducing the number of required fields and grouping related inputs logically.
Error Prevention: Providing inline validation, clear error messages, and examples to help users enter correct information.
Accessibility: Ensuring the form is navigable by keyboard, screen readers, and other assistive technologies.
Responsiveness: Adapting the form layout for different devices and screen sizes.
Provide specific recommendations for layout, wording, and interaction elements to enhance usability. If more information about the target audience or form purpose is required, ask clarifying questions to refine the suggestions.
Bonus Add-On Prompts
Suggest ways to minimize cognitive load in forms with multiple fields or steps.
Highlight areas in the form design where users might encounter errors and recommend fixes.
Propose interactive elements, like autofill or progress indicators, to streamline the user experience.
Use AI responsibly by verifying its outputs, as it may occasionally generate inaccurate or incomplete information. Treat AI as a tool to support your decision-making, ensuring human oversight and professional judgment for critical or sensitive use cases.
SUGGESTIONS TO IMPROVE
Focus on a specific type of form, such as e-commerce checkouts or survey forms.
Include localization considerations, such as multilingual support or regional formats.
Tailor recommendations for forms requiring sensitive information, like financial or personal data.
Add suggestions for dynamic forms that adjust based on user input.
Highlight mobile-first design principles for forms primarily used on small screens.
WHEN TO USE
When designing or redesigning forms for improved usability and completion rates.
To align cross-functional teams on best practices for data collection workflows.
During user research to identify and address pain points in form usage.
WHEN NOT TO USE
If the product does not require user-input forms.
When focusing solely on non-interactive UI elements.