The Online Form Builder Created for users humans

If you want information from someone, you just ask them for it, right? If it’s a stranger, you might start off with some small talk, a comment on the weather, or maybe even a compliment. But what happens when you don’t want to ask just one person, but 10, 100, 1000 people? “Just asking” is suddenly not so easy. So, you build yourself an online form to start asking at scale. But your form is forgetting something. It’s forgetting that the users completing it are actually humans. They deserve to be eased into giving you information, just like someone does when you speak to them face to face. Your form doesn’t do small talk and it definitely doesn’t offer up compliments, does it? We’d like to guide you through a few ways to collect information conversationally and at scale. Think this sounds like airy-fairy mumbo jumbo? Think about it. Better conversation means better engagement. Better engagement means more and better responses. Want to learn more? Read on.

“Forms”. Have you ever been less excited by a word? Probably not. However, whether you like it or not, forms are all around us. They’re tirelessly working to take data and information from the fingertips of human beings all over the world and turn it into actions. Did you sign up for an event recently? Then you filled in a form. Take some money out the ATM this morning? Yup, that was a form too.

We like to think that not all forms are equal. Typeform’s form builder allows you to quickly create beautiful forms that are easy to take and get higher completion rates. Just start typing like a notepad, and out intuitive form builder anticipates your questions and automatically adds them.

Wow your audience with beautiful custom designs and GIFs and follow every step of the building process in the live preview window.

Welcome to square one of the hopscotch. Before you start creating a form, make sure you clearly know what information you’re after. This will dictate the structure of your form. Online forms come in many shapes and sizes, and can find themselves popping up all across your business or organization. To get a better idea of just how many hats a form can wear, have a look at Typeform’s online form templates.

What information do you want to collect? Whether it’s for employee feedback, registration for an event, or job applications, one thing should be clear: only ask what you need to know. There’s no time or space for unnecessary questions, which can come across as unprofessional. On the other hand, if you stay transparent about your objective, your respondent will be more willing to help you achieve it.

If you ask someone to fill out, say, a contact form in the street, will you start by blurting out “ Name”, “Email”, or “Question”? If you want your online form to unroll as a natural dialogue between you and your respondent, you’ll need to make your questions a little friendlier. If you insert personality into your copy, your respondents will feel like they are part of a casual, and even fun, conversation.

Here are a few suggestions to get you started:

• Name: Hey there! What’s your name?
• Email: What’s your email? We’ll use it to get back to you.
• Question: Can you tell us what’s on your mind?

Creating an online form that builds trust may require time, coding and, product design resources that you may not have. Luckily, Typeform can do the dirty work for you, while giving you the freedom you need to create your own content, structure, and design.

In the end, what you’re looking to have is an honest conversation with your audience. Here are a few Typeform features that can help you achieve that.

After creating your online form, why stop there? Integrations can help you create whole workflows, taking the hard work off your plate and saving you time. If you’re looking for something other than forms, take a look at our quizzes and polls pages. For now, let’s take a look at some example workflows you can build using Typeform and some of your favorite tools.

Typeform is way more than just forms. Take a look at how we can help you understand more about your image with a branding questionnaire, make quizzes or gain insight into your Net Promoter Score. Conduct a patient satisfaction survey or make a survey to get more customer data with our free online survey maker.