Many thanks to Vicky Teinaki for collaborating on our workshop – Creating truly accessible forms – at the Service Design in Government conference in Edinburgh, 2024. (Update, 2025: very sadly, Vicky died in January this year. This was the lastContinue reading… Creating truly accessible forms: workshop at SD in Government 2024
Tag: better forms
Chicago Camps Tent Talk: Who cares about forms? You should – and here’s why
Do you ever feel that everything you try to do, especially online, means getting through some form or another? I certainly do. But also, why are so many of them full of problems? I was thrilled when Russ Unger –Continue reading… Chicago Camps Tent Talk: Who cares about forms? You should – and here’s why
FormFest2023 – The future of forms: what’s ahead?
What do you do when you get an invitation to talk on your favourite topic with some of your favourite people? Say “yes”, of course. I was thrilled to be part of the Closing Keynote at FormFest2023 organised by CodeContinue reading… FormFest2023 – The future of forms: what’s ahead?
How to save money by fixing forms, presentation to WebExpo 2023
I was delighted to be invited to the WebExpo conference in Prague, and even more delighted to have a chance to talk about my favourite topic: better forms. Specifically, this time I decided to focus on how to save moneyContinue reading… How to save money by fixing forms, presentation to WebExpo 2023
How to look at a form: Boye and Company
It was an honour to be invited back for my second Boye and Company conference call. Previously, I talked about better surveys. This time, we focused on my favourite topic – forms that work. We looked at a selection ofContinue reading… How to look at a form: Boye and Company
Failing to fix your forms is costing you money
Recently I saw a tweet from Abebe Birhane, a leading researcher in the area of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and ethics. She’s a busy woman and has better things to do, but she’d had this very frustrating experience: “Dear @SASContinue reading… Failing to fix your forms is costing you money
Five ways to choose which form to fix
It was all going so well. I was running a forms workshop and we’d found lots of things to think about in the selected form. Then one participant said, sadly: “But we’ve got hundreds of forms like this”. Which ledContinue reading… Five ways to choose which form to fix
Discussing a topic map for how to design a better form
If you’re working on improving a form, especially a government one, what advice do you need? In April 2019, I discussed a topic map that might help to answer that question in a webinar for Digital.GOV. To find out moreContinue reading… Discussing a topic map for how to design a better form
Draft curriculum for ‘How to Design a Form’
Post originally published in 2019; updated in 2022 In March 2019, I was working mostly with the NHS digital standards and redesign team on their advice about patterns. This post: gave the background to the work, explained about the draftContinue reading… Draft curriculum for ‘How to Design a Form’
Forms, surveys and the need to be brave: UX Insider interview
I’ve always really enjoyed reading the ‘UX Insider’ interviews conducted by Damian Rees of experienceux. The one with Tara Land about her work at GDS is a particular favourite. So I felt very honoured when Damian contacted me to allow me toContinue reading… Forms, surveys and the need to be brave: UX Insider interview