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Welcome to Formulate

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If you're in the US, get down to Las Vegas for BFMA Symposium, 4 – 8 May 2008.
Formulate Information Design is presenting two sessions at the Symposium, one on our 2007 zebra striping research and another on making a paper form electronic.

Formulate Information Design provides form design services to public, private and not-for-profit organisations. Our aim is to rid the world of poorly designed forms.

We offer:

  • Advice
  • Design
  • Training
  • Research.

We can also help with communicating the information gathered by such tools. This includes the design of graphs, tables and reports.

Contact us, check out our articles on good forms design, read about research we've been conducting lately or have your say about forms that frustrate you.

Latest article

What is an electronic form?

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We all know what a paper form is, partly because they've been around for an awfully long time. Electronic forms, on the other hand, are relatively new. Consequently, there is still plenty of confusion about what exactly an electronic form is.

Is electronic form synonymous with entering data using a computer? Does it include forms that are filled out on the Web? What if the form is just a snapshot of an existing paper form?

In this article, we explore the spectrum of different electronic form types and present a useful framework for describing just what is an electronic form.

→ Read this latest article.
→ Browse our other articles.

Current research activity

Data tables follow-up study

Formulate Information Design is conducting a follow-up to our 2007 study on data table formatting.

We need your help—the more participants we get the greater the chance we can draw conclusions from the study that designers the world over can use.

The study is anonymous and takes less than 5 minutes.

Do the study now.

→ Read about this current research activity.
→ Browse our other research activities.