Describe an experience when you needed to fill out a form on a web page. What was the purpose of the form? What would you recommend to improve the form?

During the course of my life I have had to fill out many different web forms for many different sources. Over this same period I have found some frustrations while using these forms and at other times I have come across a form or two that does exactly what the form was written for. For the purpose of this assignment I will go into detail about a certain form in which I had a negative experience with.

Online shopping has become very big over the last 5 years or so. Buying items that the consumer wants and needs over the Net is much more convenient than packing up the children, wasting gas, and hitting traffic to go to the store to purchase the same item. The bottle neck here though is the sign up forms to create an account in order to purchase. I had added to my shopping cart several items that I had wished to purchase. Afterwards I was to create an account in order to complete the transaction and possibly sign in at a later date and purchase more items. The form needed the common things such as name, address information, contact numbers and a user created user name and password. This is where the problems started. After completing the long form I created a user name that apparently someone else owned. The form threw an error which is okay unto it’s own. The problem though, was that none of my form data was saved and I had to go back and retype everything again. This is a very tedious process. The form should have been written to store the form data once the form button was pressed no matter what. The only field I should have been required to fill out again should have been the user name field and, or the password. I cancelled the transaction after several attempts and went to a different online store that sold