Successful LiveCycle solutions require great form design. Unfortunately, most of our time as LiveCycle programmers is spent on technical and functional issues. Form design issues are usually a secondary or even a tertiary concern. Although you do not need to become an expert graphic designer, you do need to take some time to improve your form design. With a small investment of time and thought, you will improve your form design and your users will be delighted. Having delighted users is never a bad thing. Remember, these users are the form fillers who are supplying the valuable data to our Adobe LiveCycle systems. So, to paraphrase Tom Cruise, let's help them help us.

If you are still not convinced that thinking about form design is important, please read on. At the end of the article, I will show you how form design has altered the course of history. I'm not kidding.

This article is just an introduction to a few concepts. My intent is to keep it simple and practical so that you can begin using these ideas in your own LiveCycle work. This article is entitled Part 1 because, if you like it, I will follow up with an article or two to help further your form design education.

This article is organized around three topics. Each of these areas can and should be explored further, so if you have any ideas or examples, please send them my way. Form design is an exciting topic that deserves much more attention than this short article allows. However, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, so let's get the show on the road.

Requirements

In order to make the most of this article, you need the following software and files:

Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.1 or above

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Sample files

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