If you run a social network or any website that is dependent on member activities, then you know the significance of the sign up form. The sign up form has one important role: fuel the lifeline that is your community by converting anonymous users into engaging members. It’s a lot of pressure to place on one page – some handle it well, others not so well.
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Half a year ago, Smashing Magazine did a survey of 100 top websites that depended on their sign up process and examined the trends. There’s far too much insight in the two-part article to summarize here, but in UX Digest tradition, we wanted to highlight a few key findings and of course link you to the goodies.
- 40% of sites used “Sign Up” to label their registration page and also placed the link at the top right of the site
- 61% of sites simplified the design of the sign up page to remove distractions
- No trend was identified for label arrangement (left vs. right vs. top justified)
- Designers leaned towards having few mandatory fields and few fields in general
Keep in mind these are trends – not best practices necessarily. That being said, the masses can’t be that wrong, can they?
Source: Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms (Smashing Magazine) – Part 1 | Part 2
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