Show notes
Web forms and form analytics. We’re joined (once he’d found the right garden!) by Jonas Arnklint from Stockholm-based start-up Revrise to talk about web forms.
We talk about the form’s importance in most things web – sign up forms, payment forms, contact forms. We also talk about Jonas’s form analytics product, designed to help you pick up on form problems and leakage.
To cap things off, we share some of our tips for optimising your web forms.
(Listening time 41 minutes)
#60 James & Per & Jonas fill in forms – @uxpodcast chats web forms with @arnklint from @heyrevrise http://t.co/B2kU0kiK18
— UX Podcast (@uxpodcast) November 15, 2013
References:
- Webbradion (Jonas’s Swedish podcast)
- Episode 5 – The truth about gamification (the “kill room” episode)
- Revrise form analytics
- Best practices for form design, Luke Wroblewski (PDF)
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