Renovating Your Forms: Step 6
Design Your Form
Once you have your questions drafted, it is time to put them in the standardized format for Nova Scotia government forms. See Better Forms Standards.
You can take two approaches:
- Use one of the DIY Templates.
- If your form is simple and relatively short (one or two pages), you should have no problem adapting it to the template provided. Just download the template, overwrite the sample information with your specific information, and save the new form.
- Take your form to Communications Nova Scotia to be professionally designed. You should consider having your form professionally designed if your form is
- complex — it can be very difficult to make a form that has several multiple choice lists, for example, look neat and inviting for the user
- high volume or is provided to many clients on paper
- high profile
The cost of having your form professionally designed (or printed) will vary from project to project. You should access Communications Nova Scotia through your department's communications advisor.
To see examples of forms that have been transformed from difficult to user friendly, see Before and After Forms Makeovers.