Understanding The Creative Process Of Styling An Adaptive Form

Unlike many aspects of building a form, styling is a very creative process rather than a technical or mechanical process. This can make it intimidating for forms creators to take on the responsibility of defining how an adaptive form should be branded. We have looked at specifically how you define styles to our adaptive forms using a theme, inline styling as well as through an external CSS file but we have not yet explored the art of creating the individual styling details.

Specifically, I want to look at how to go about defining a branded design for your adaptive forms when no formal guidelines have been set out be your organization. If guidelines already exist, the exercise becomes far more straight forward; identify the different element and how they map up with the guidelines. However, when there are no guidelines, it can feel very overwhelming to know what colors, fonts and designs should be implemented to portray the proper look and feel for your organization.

In this mini-series I want to look at some general tips on how you can get started when building a design regardless of if you have a brand guideline to follow. I want to then follow that up with some tips on how you can go about defining a standard for your organization and lastly some general tips for troubleshooting some common problems that arise when you start implementing a style.