Journal
The SiliForm Blog
Insights on research surveys, conversational forms, and AI-powered data collection — for educators, researchers, and startup teams.
What you'll find in the SiliForm journal
The articles here cover the practical side of collecting data with online forms: how to phrase questions so people answer them honestly, where respondents abandon a form and what to change when they do, and how conversational, one-question-at-a-time formats compare with the traditional wall-of-fields layout most tools still default to.
Roughly half the library is comparison and buying research — Typeform pricing broken down, Typeform against Google Forms, and honest round-ups of alternatives for teams whose response caps or seat pricing stopped making sense. The other half is templates and playbooks: lead qualification questions worth asking, candidate screening flows for recruiters, client intake for coaches and consultants, post-purchase surveys for Shopify stores, and scored quizzes for teachers.
There is also a research track for academics and UX teams, covering conversational survey design, ethics and consent considerations, data export for analysis, and the cognitive-load and satisficing problems that quietly ruin long questionnaires.
Who these guides are written for
Most posts assume you are the person who owns the form — a marketer chasing qualified leads, a founder running customer discovery, a recruiter screening applicants, a teacher grading a quiz, or a researcher fielding a study. They lead with the decision you need to make and the settings that change the outcome, rather than a tour of every button in the product.
Where an article describes something SiliForm does, it links to the help guide that walks through the actual steps, so you can move from the idea to a working form without rereading the article.
Frequently asked questions
- How often are new articles published?
- New guides go up as features ship and as pricing on competing tools changes. Comparison posts carry the year in the title and are revisited when a competitor changes its plans or response limits.
- Do I need a SiliForm account to use the templates in these posts?
- No. Every template article explains the question set and the reasoning behind it, so you can rebuild it in whatever tool you already use. Opening it directly in SiliForm needs a free account, which includes unlimited forms and responses.
- Are the competitor comparisons kept up to date?
- Pricing figures in the comparison articles are checked against the competitor's own public pricing page, and every comparison includes a section describing when the other tool is the better choice.