WPCoder uses a high quality image of a clipboard for their order form.

Alex Cohaniuc uses a piece of paper for his contact form.

Paramore Redd have a nicely styled, clean contact form.

Graphik uses a big friendly header on their contact form.

Kontain clearly defines form fields by using bounding boxes and colour.

Tumblr uses big form fields and a nice clean appearance.

News Pond gets users to focus on their sign-up form with the use of a background glow.

Duoh uses a big bold header and a paragraph to introduce their contact form.

Neutron Creations fills in fake details on their contact form, showing clearly, at a glance, what details should be entered.

Ballpark has a nice clean design with clearly defined sections.

Dragon Interactive uses a tab interface to distinguish the type of message on their contact form.

Substrakt uses the familiarity of a postcard for their contact form.

Battle.net implements a progress tracker for each step of signing up to their service.

Tuitive uses sIFR for non-web safe fonts on the label tags of their contact form.

David Hellmann uses plastic tape for the label tags of his contact form.

Elliot Jay Stocks uses nice big and clear elements on the comments form of his blog.

Be Inspired

As you can see, forms don’t have to be boring, there are a number of different ways that you can make forms more interesting and more usable, increasing the chance that users will sign up to a service or send feedback.

Feel free to share your own form designs and any others that you have seen out there in the comments.