Forms: Best practices

Things to think about
These few tips on designing the sign up experience on your website are also the basic outline for Joshua Porter’s book designing for the social web. He has a lot of other very important info but I think these few really help the process of specifically thinking about the sign up experience:
- Describe WHAT it is
- Show HOW it works
- Show the end result
- Explain WHY
- Give examples of WHO is using it
- Use Testimonials or Case Studies
- Get Specific
- Give numbers (when they’re big-ish

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