Let the design of the form or page hinder the site's readability The design of a smart form, website or user interface should never interfere with the user's ability to consume the content on the screen. This includes having busy backgrounds behind content or poor color schemes that hinder the form or page readability.
Busy backgrounds cause a distraction and take attention away from the content, even more so if the busy background is directly underneath the content. Also, be careful not to use color schemes that decrease the contrast of the typography on the screen (i.e. light gray type of a white background). Focus on the typography of your content to ensure issues such as line length, line height, and font choice doesn't pose issues for readability.
Hinder a visitor's ability to scan the screen As mentioned above, users and visitors alike often scan the screen quickly before settling in to read any one particular thing with focus. Users often scan for visual cues such as headings, menus, pictures, buttons, and blocks to know where they should focus their attention.
Fill the screen with non-related content Look at it this way; we do things based on a mission we give ourselves. We go inside a grocery store with the intent of buying a box of cereal. If you know your purpose, then you wouldn't go looking for your item in the toiletry aisle. Instead, you go directly to the designated aisle to find the specific item.
Users of your site or interface feel the same way. They want the content they came for without any other interference or distraction. If users are entering the information of a customer on your smart form, they don't want unnecessary fields to be shown up as mandatory and restrict them from saving the form. Similarly, while claiming the insurance on your insurance website; they don't want to see ads or recommendations to buy a new phone.
Make your visitors wait for your content to load The attention spans and patience of web users are very small. So, when they have to wait on your web page to load, they will become frustrated and likely leave your page.
With your app or site, keep in mind the impacts of your design choices on the sites loading time. Large images, lots of jQuery and animations, and loading resources from third party sites hurt your sites load time. Optimization and key design decisions that reduce site loading time will help keep your visitors on your site.
Have several things compete for attention Designing elements that have to fight for attention can also cause confusion and some nervousness in your users unnecessarily. Using visual hierarchy to design the user's flow around the screen reduces the competitive feeling of different elements. You can help them out by limiting how many call-to-actions you have on the screen, reducing or relocating ads on the site, keeping flashing and animated things to a minimum, and use headings appropriately. Also, not having things pop up at users (i.e. modal boxes) helps to keep the focus on the content.
To ensure performance & maintainability of the UI and to overcome limitations, you need to have a smart design. If you follow the best practices, you will have less rework after the review. To help designers and users have a pleasant time and user experience without any hassle while working with UX /UI, let us go through some do’s and don’ts to look out for so that we can help them get exactly what they came for without irritation or a bad UX. We do not cover business or project scope, just pure platform UX/UI setup.
A similar experience regardless of the device. Users/Visitors can access your smart forms and pages on their desktop, laptop, tablet or phone. A big part of user experience design is ensuring that no matter how the visitor sees your site, they are getting the same experience they would if they were to visit from another device. This means that if a visitor is seeing your site on their phone or tablet, they should still be able to find everything they need without trouble just like they would if they were viewing your site on their desktop at home.
A seamless experience across all your devices helps keep your users on your UI platform regardless of the device they are using.
Provide instantly recognizable and easy-to-use navigation. The key to providing a pleasant user experience for users is to understand that they are in search of content. They want information that you are providing on your Smart Forms or Pages. They will be using your Menu search screens or web site's navigation to quickly get to the content they are looking for. Provide a user-friendly navigation system that is easy to recognize and easy to use.
Design your navigation in a way that gets visitors where they want to go with the least number of clicks as possible while still being easy to scan and locate where they need to go.
Make the most important thing on the screen the focal point. Users are more likely to quickly scan the screen than they are to read everything there. Therefore, if a visitor or user wants to find content or complete a task, they are going to scan until they find where they need to go. You can help them along by designing where the eyes should focus first, second, etc. (also known as visual hierarchy). Make the important things such as screen titles, login forms, navigation items, or other important content a focal point so visitors see it right away.
Ensure all links and buttons function as they should. It is pretty frustrating to look for an item that you need urgently but is out of stock at the grocery store. Users of your application/web pages feel the exact same way when they click on a broken link or on a visual element that looks like a button but isn't clickable. When visitors are searching for content, they expect every link to take them where it says it will and without any error and not to another place they weren't expecting.
Visual elements that look like they are links or buttons but aren't clickable (i.e. underlined words that aren't links, elements that have a call-to-action but are not hyperlinked) can also frustrate users and can cause them to dislike your application or leave your site.
Let the user control their browsing experience. There are several common irritants that have appeared recently on websites that take control away from users, such as auto-play videos and hijacked scrolling. When you design a smart form, website or user interface, you want to let the user control their browsing and movement through the site or application.
To decide whether to begin with Smart Form or Page on ONEWEB platform certainly depends on User requirement specifications. The key points that user must keep in mind before choosing Smart Form or Page for their application design requirements are:
User must choose Smart Form, when
Data entry interfaces.
Complex navigation is required like General Tab and 2-Tab Layer structure.
Input data is required to submit or initiate any process flow.
Need validations or business conditions to be applied on the data input by user.
Forms that require integration with business process management systems.
User must choose Page, when
Need to display static and dynamic contents on a web page (without writing any HTML).
Page navigation is required.
Static or Dynamic website building.
Building community forums/ E-mail marketing.
Actions, text or images on pages that require integration with Microflow or third-party websites.