4. Design Techniques 1

Data capture forms are simple enough to design aren't they? Don't you just open up a Word Processing document and put a few headings and a few boxes?

If that is the technique that you use, then you would probably end up with a poor design like the one below:

poorly designed data capture form

So, just what IS wrong with the design of the form above?

poorly designed data capture form

Over the next couple of pages, we will look at techniques that you can use to improve the design of your data capture forms.

Challenge see if you can find out one extra fact on this topic that we haven't already told you