AA Form – Three Entry Fields and One Error!
I recently completed a short form (Requesting only my name and my email) on AA (New Zealand Automobile Association) website to enter into a draw. Have a look at the following screen shots and think how you could design a better form!
And then, after filling the form, I was looking for the submit button…
At first sight, the SUBMIT ENTRY is not obvious when you have the whole page in front of you.
Oops, I got an error; “Please enter email”. Well, I did. Why somebody decided to not display labels beside the three fields if the website is not able to manage several ways of entering data?
Visit the Functioning Form Blog for a good reference in how to design online forms.
Sadly, the website contest is not available anymore, but here is the AA carfair website.
[...] a previous post (AA form – three entry fields and one error!), I wrote about how a simple form on the New Zealand Automobile Association (AA) website was [...]