25 Fantastic Web Forms for Design Inspiration: "
Well designed and enhanced web forms can really complete a great website interface experience (ie. sign up forms). It’s certainly not an aspect developers or designers should settle for less on. We’ve gathered 25 really fantastic web forms for your design and development inspiration.
1. Lionways
Though the form itself isn’t anything special, its surrounding design elements really make it pop and combine new age mail with a visual sense of old age mail.
2. Guillaume Pacheco
Though you can’t see the containing area for the message input, this form has a fun sandy beach theme going. It’s also enhanced with form validation, which displays if there’s a problem.
3. Brian Handley
Forms are an element of web design and as such shouldn’t be ignored so regularly. Brian Handley has done a great job of designing his contact form to match the rest of his theme, as a quality designer would.
4. Falko Seidel
This is a great example of a quick “drop me a note” type contact form that integrates well into the overall theme of the site.
5. Berkshire
The added handwriting elements and butterfly add a nice touch to spice up a simplistic form design. Small details such as these set apart good from great design.
6. Todd Adams
Todd Adams going the extra mile by customizing his form elements to match his theme.
7. Christian Sparrow
Although it appears simple, it’s the details that make Christian Sparrow’s contact form stand out as top notch. His whole site is fun and clever too!
8. Marcol Art
Another great example of a fully designed contact form that matches the whole website’s theme.
9. Yodaa
10. Salinas
11. Alexey Chenishov
12. Dragon Interactive
13. ilovecolors
14. Bitter Kiss
15. Design Disease
16. InfectedFX
17. Grooveshark
18. Tony Johnson
19. Try Triangle
20. Vincent Mazza
21. Alexarts
22. CreativeSwitch
23. IndoFolio
24. Red Bull Soapbox Racer
25. Daniel Hellier
Thoughts on Forms
Many of these forms are designed to match the themes they’re used within, which is what sets them apart from so many other standard and bland forms. Many of them use additional enhancements for instant validation, AJAX submission, field selection highlighting, etc., which shows that the designer and/or developer took the time to pay attention to all the details of the site.
There’s tons of great forms out there so if you have any favorites, please share a link to it with us via comment. Thanks!
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