Form design for The Gentle Touch

Project notes

To help make the extensive form feel less overwhelming to complete, I presented the questions in clearly-defined sections, using a pale tint of The Gentle Touch’s brand blue as a recessive background tint. As the patient demographic tends to be older, I made the text large enough for ease of reading, spreading the design across two pages. Using the brand colour, typeface and a standardised footer element (including the logo – not shown) gives a quiet level of branding without being distracting.

The patient’s written entries are as unconstrained as possible, with just dotted lines providing a guide. On the fillable PDF version, the multiple lines are simplified to a single multi-line area for completion.

Finally, after testing with the client, I added a ‘submit’ button to allow patients to return a completed PDF form via email as simply as possible.