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<aside> 🧾 **Designing efficient web forms**

We had a chance to discuss forms for complex use-cases during UX Camp Europe. I'm grateful for the great insights given especially by Paweł, Oliver, and Maximilian who have experience with designing complex forms for various industries - whether it's government, medical or enterprise organizations.

There are a ton of great sources on how to design forms well, but we tried to go beyond that and focus on expert users, everyday use of our systems, and complex use-cases.

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<aside> âš¡ What is designing for efficiency?

There are a couple of ways to look at efficient design. Each of them considers a different aspect and when applied together, they can significantly speed up the work of our users.

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Designing for timeliness


Efficiency is the speed with which people do tasks after they have learned the interface.

Another resources

Efficiency in general

Flexibility and Efficiency of Use: The 7th Usability Heuristic Explained

Efficient UX Isn't Always the Best UX

Principle of Consistency and Standards in User Interface Design

Over-complicated? Over-simplified? The UX Efficient Frontier

Gestalt Theory for Efficient UX: Principle of Similarity.

Designing for expert users

Lessons from Designing for Advanced Users

Testing Expert Users

Accelerators

UI Copy: UX Guidelines for Command Names and Keyboard Shortcuts

Accelerators Allow Experts to Increase Efficiency

Efficiency vs. learnability

Learnability vs Efficiency in User Interface Design (Video)

How to Measure Learnability of a User Interface