4 Web Forms That Are Doing it Right (or Wrong)

St Charles

St. Charles' find a doctor form gives a variety of options for searching, but keeps it simple and straightforward. An advanced option button can be clicked to search by gender or alphabetically. The large text boxes and bold lettering are a good idea, especially for a hospital, as it makes the form useable for those with declining eyesight.


Deschutes Brewery

The contact form on the Deschutes Brewery website includes a beer quality option. Overall I would say the form is done well, but I think the beer quality option could remain hidden unless the user clicks a button or checkbox to add this option (like St Charles did for their find a doctor form).

Google

Google's advanced search option has helped me out many times, and it sure would have made life easier if it had been around in my grade school days. I like that they include search tips along the side of the form.




Ikea

Ikea's profile form is simple enough (although it could be better designed). My problem with it is that they ask the user to enter both their email address and password twice (the email is definitely overkill). I find the redundancy annoying and unnecessary and I've noticed that many websites have started to do away with it because there are better ways to verify information.