Things like Normform look great for basic forms, but when the entire screen is filled with inputs, so much uniformity and white space seems to hinder navigation and input speed.
Things like Normform look great for basic forms, but when the entire screen is filled with inputs, so much uniformity and white space seems to hinder navigation and input speed.
Also, the forms are filled out differently based on customer defined rules which vary widely and change frequently, especially around qualitative questions. For large, long-term projects, the final form is hidden, qualitative questions are turned into multiple quantitative questions and mapped to the final answer so the user doesn't have to constantly think about the custom rules. But for small projects, it's too much development work and the user is expected to follow the rules manually.
Usually some terminal UI is the best for rapid data entry, which is why a shop I used to work at switched back to their TUI because the shiny new GUI was blocking everything.
The TUI you had to learn and the GUI was intuitive, but after a week anybody could use the TUI at the same speed and after a month they'd 10x or and soon 100x the entry speed.