Designing Usable Forms: The Three-Layer Model of the Form  

Why do people say 'I’m not good with forms' or 'I don’t like forms' when a form is only a piece of paper, or a screen, with some printing on it? There must be something special about forms that inspires these comments. The 'three-layer model” considers forms from three points of view: perceptual (layout), conversational (questions and answers) and relationship (the structure of the task). Analysing a form using the three layers helps to un-pick its problems, and to suggest ways of making it more usable.

Jarrett, Caroline. STC Proceedings (2000). Design>Information Design>Forms

E-mailing and Submitting PDF Forms

What’s the easiest way to e-mail a PDF form and have people fill it out?

Sprague, Rich. PDFzone (2004). Design>Information Design>Forms>Adobe Acrobat

Editing Forms in Acrobat 6  

The Form tool as we know has been abandoned. There is now a Field tool which is subdivided into tools for the individual field types.

Wyss, Max. PDFzone (2004). Articles>Information Design>Forms>Adobe Acrobat

One Hundred and One Forms eTips  

One hundred and one tips for designing digital forms using Adobe Acrobat.

Padova, Ted. Adobe (2007). Presentations>Information Design>Forms>Adobe Acrobat