<How to deal with large webforms ⁄ >

When developing/designing business applications you might face long (or large) webforms. You can have tens of fields and it might be a real mess. I know that it's often the client's request (you know, they want the forms to look exactly like paper documents - the famous one), but, whatever the reason, you have to think about user experience.

As you can see on the image above there are too many fields on the form. Imagine how what it's like for users to fill in the form. How 'easy' would it be to figure out validation messages? If you think this is not a common scenario, let me reassure you. I've dealt with tens of such applications in the past several years.

The key is to organize the form a little bit and group the fields into meaningful groups. But this might not be as easy as it sounds. It is not be enough to do ad-hoc regrouping. You would have to understand the business rules and processes that need to be accomplished by filling the form; is it a simple one like signup process or a more complicated one like the process of opening a bank account



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