I'd like your feedback on a situation I'm facing with my stakeholders with regards to a particular web form design. I'm new to my role as a UX Designer and hope to learn from experienced folks here.  Currently, we have a long form that we cannot break into multiple pages. This is a solution I've brought forth to the stakeholder, but unfortunately, did not take off.  I went with a multi-column form field design. I'm aware that multi-column forms are bad in terms of readability and where possible, we should stick to a single column form (this is not possible due to the length of the form and that we cannot break them into multiple pages). I accept these risks - at least in the first product iteration till we get more user feedback on this, but for now, let's assume the following:   We've a multi-column form design. Each row in the form will have at most 3-4 form fields. The entire form is placed within a modal (again, this is something we can't move away from due to technical constraints)   Currently, our form looks something like below (information masked):    One of the key issues from our stakeholders was that:   For dropdowns and calendars, where there is normally a visual indicator (i.e. an arrow pointing down, calendar icon) accompanying the field: if we stretch it all the way out at 100% of modal width, users may not know that the field is a dropdown or a calendar. It was suggested that we avoid fields that stretch out all the way at 90% modal width and keep it short in length (e.g. see nationality field in the screenshot, suggestion is to keep it at the same length as gender, given name, etc)   My thoughts on it are:   It is a desktop based app and people are viewing this on a normal-sized monitor screen. They'll be able to see within their peripheral vision that the fields (that are currently stretched at 90% modal width) is actually a dropdown or a calendar. I would assume that people would normally click on the "currently active/default value" in the dropdown or the date in the datefield, and they don't bring their cursor all the way to the edges of the field where the "down arrow" (in dropdown) or "calendar icon" (in datefield) are to click; hence, it is OK to stretch the fields at 90% modal width.   Unfortunately, due to the nature of the project, we are unable to run usability tests until after the product launches... These are very real constraints we're facing as UX designers in the organisation we're at, and would like to tap in the experiences of other designers for advice.
I'm trying to give the best experience to users of a very huge system (like a CRM). It has a lot of forms and much of these have a lot of fields. My doubt is about if I should use a single column form (which raises too much vertical scrolling), or a two columns form (which needs less vertical scrolling and uses more horizontal white space) and a last one with four columns (which has few scrolling and uses almost whole white space to try to keep most of the fields above the fold).  It's important to say that our clients hate scrolling, and they always ask why we don't use the horizontal white space when we present a one column form).  So I'm little bit confused about it, because a lot of UX studies and good practices recommend to do not use/avoid multicolumn forms but the clients most of times ask multi column forms.  Our clients are very used to desktop programs and not everybody is very familiar with web based systems.  Below follows some possibilities I would like to share to illustrate an example of a complex form in the system with the three possibilities I mentioned:    In the example above I'm using the one column form (most recommended in UX studies), but with a very long vertical scroll.    In the second example I tried to reduce vertical space by using two columns.    This is the client's favorite one, 4 columns using white space and trying to keep everything above the fold.   The lengths of fields are based on the average of characters amount for each field.   I would like to know your opinion about the best approach to this case.
I've been looking around on the internet and I can't find anything in depth on how the cable/connection functions. I've only been able to find simple pin out descriptions.  If someone can link me or point me in the right direction, I would be very grateful. Add a "voted to close" activity event somewhere on the user profile page Often when I vote to close, I want to go back and check the comments on the question, to see if it's been improved, to comment further, or to answer the question.  It would be helpful to add a bit of a trail so I can find those questions again. I'm suggesting adding an event to the Activity page on the user profile, because this is the logical spot for the given action.  I realize the Activity page is public, but I don't see why this content couldn't be added only for the currently logged-in user.  An alternative would be to add a new tab on the user profile page that only lists current-user content, and is not shown publicly. I'm sure there are other events, data, or statistics that could be shown here as well, so I'm certain a new tab like this wouldn't be underutilized.    One thing that could be done instead of this is to always add a comment stating why I voted to close. This works well enough, but only some of the time -- for example, if there is already a vote to close as a duplicate and a comment with a link to that duplicate, I'm not going to add a comment myself if I have nothing to add aside from a close vote.  Another way to do it would be to favourite the question. This only works well to a point since questions that get voted to close don't necessarily end up being downvoted (i.e., for my "closed favourites," I couldn't just look at the last page of my favourites).    Related: Jon Skeet  that votes to close on your own questions be shown in the Recent Activity area, which is not what I'm requesting here. 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I've tried to prove it myself but I can't get past a particular step.   Can anyone point me to a proof of this?  If not, maybe I can post my attempted proof up to where I get stuck. so I am creating a few posts about bearings and wheels, (story so far):      I have now got the wheels, bearings and freehub working.  Started riding to work this morning and I almost couldn't stop at a junction.  Thankfully wasn't going too fast.  I physically can not get the wheel to lock.  I have to use both brakes at full force to get the bike to roll to a stop.  If I only use one brake I would not stop at any junction in time.  Could the cause be any of the following:   Over greased bearings? Over greased axle? not tightened cone hubs enough? not tighted axle enough?   I do not have any grease on the disk brakes them selves.  Rather nervous getting on the bike now.  Don't seem to be doing too well with this bike home fixing thing.  over greased bearings?  EDIT  Forgot to mention that it is hydraulic disk brakes.  EDIT 2  So in the end I took it to the LBS as I didn't have much confidence in my self at this point.  They had to replace the front pads but where able to clean the rear and cleaned the rotors.  (I had tried to clean the rotors but obviously not vigorously enough).  He said it was a bit of a pain to do.  All is working again.  They double checked my wheels and said I had put them back together correctly which is reassuring.  Thanks for all the help