Comments on: Nice Design Candy – Hand Drawn Opt In Form

By: Anjo Sandler

Anjo Sandler — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:02:27 +0000

I agree that this design cannot be used with other websites. Though, this can be used but there are some similar designs that are simple and basic.

By: Psoriasis Free For Life

Psoriasis Free For Life — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:44:51 +0000

I think that layout is quite clever…but you can not use this on all sites. I think having an opt in on the right side is more effective than on the left side, but thats my personal opinion.

By: Linda Clark

Linda Clark — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:18:57 +0000

That’s not really a bad design. It looks cute, but then, it may not fit in on a business website. Or you can try to change the “messy” part or area of the form if you want to use it on your business. Just make sure that you only include the important message on your form.

By: Andrew@BloggingGuide

Andrew@BloggingGuide — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:48:14 +0000

This is a very unique design but is not really professional looking. Maybe it can be used depending on the site, if its a kids site then it might work. I really think it depends on the site.

By: Nate Kragness

Nate Kragness — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:19:02 +0000

A lot of snail-mail marketers have been using this technique for quite a long time — that is, using “hand-drawn” fonts on the exterior of the envelope. Apparently, quite a significant amount of people open the junk mail if it looks like a human actually wrote the text on the envelope. However, I’m not so sure that would transfer on the internet, as there’s absolutely no expectation that someone would actually be writing the text on your screen… but with that said, I do like it, and it obviously differentiates a site from the competition…

By: Basin Glass Co.

Basin Glass Co. — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:50:36 +0000

It great from a visual design perspective but if sites become more and more hand-generated it will have to force the search engines to develop algorithms to gather data from them as it will be hard for the indexing spiders to take “meaning” from the content. I think we are headed in that direction anyway as it becomes easier for people to create more outside of the box designs, especially with the new Apple and Microsoft tablets rumored to be hitting the markets. If web site designs become more hand drwan and written we could see a revolution in search technology; it would be foolish to rely on tags for much longer…new spidering techniques are long over due.

By: Algernon

Algernon — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:02:08 +0000

Not a bad design, but looks a bit messy. Maybe childish. It won’t fit in many sites, I believe. My experience tells me the user usually prefers simpler designs, as easy to use as possible.

By: Mudge

Mudge — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:13:03 +0000

I find this design refreshing and a pleasant visual change from the standard rigidity that abounds. Hope it works for them. Reminds me of the commoncraft videos. Simplicity and humanity rather than hi tech.

By: Minneapolis Web Design

Minneapolis Web Design — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:14:06 +0000

It’s definitely flashy, I’ll give you that. As far as conversions go, I would imagine(obviously) it depends on the target market.

The problem with something like that is it looks like i might not be compatible on all computers. Probably utilizes some heavy flash and whatnot. So, if you are marketing towards the older generation, it could be rather confusing and/or they might not even have the resources to view the form.

Given that, as long as it is immediately easy to understand and fill out though, i don’t really see it hurting conversion ratios.Remember, you want to create as little road blocks and difficulties between your customer and the product/service as possible.

By: Apartments Bohinj

Apartments Bohinj — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:50:40 +0000

What a great idea. I’m sure it’s not the first time someone thought of making a site like that but it’s the best try I’ve seen so far.