Forms are filled by people due to educational, professional and personal reason. They should be designed with clear objective and should derive some conclusion. It should be free of errors and simplified so that readers can easily understand and fill the response. There are many firms that offer holistic services of form analysis. The service ranges from reviewing your existing data or proposed data gathering processes also include advising on apt wording and best practice forms design.
Some important questions are to be asked long before the design of a form commences and if not established early can lead to reworking late in the design process. Firms also design forms, analyze and do testing for government forms.
The analysis techniques are as follows:
- Background Research: In this stage designers utilize various techniques including workflow mapping, conducting expert review on existing products and communicating with staff to locate and understand any problems or areas.
- Business Process Improvement: It is the analysis of information within a process to establish if there is any scope of improvement. Undertaken during the analysis of project.
- Work flow Diagramming: A high level diagram that documents the task and flow of information within a process.
