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title: Building a Classic (no-AI) form
description: Create beautifully designed, traditional forms without AI — choose from four layouts, add voice dictation, and keep full control.
canonical: https://chatwisp.ai/knowledge-base/classic-forms/build-a-classic-form
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# Building a Classic (no-AI) form

# Building a Classic (no-AI) form

A **Classic form** is a beautifully designed, completely AI-free form that works like the best traditional form apps — but with ChatWisp's polish and your brand built in. Choose this mode when you want a familiar, straightforward data-collection experience with zero AI involvement.

Classic forms share everything with ChatWisp's AI forms — the same 14 question types, conditional branching, results dashboard, and exports — but they present questions as a clean, recognizable form rather than a conversation.

## Choose your layout

- **One page** — all questions on a single scrollable page.
- **One at a time** — a clean stepper with Back/Next buttons.
- **Spotlight** — immersive, full-screen, one-question-at-a-time with big headlines and auto-advance on choices.
- **Floating card** — your entire short form in one elegant card. Perfect for contact forms and signups.

## Design with the Style Studio

Once you have built your questions, open the form's **Mode** tab → **Form style** to re-skin the entire form with a live preview. You get six independent styling axes — color theme, type mood, density, shape, background, and motion — plus an optional cover image, and your brand logo, colors, and fonts on top.

## Optional voice dictation

Even with no AI, you can offer respondents **optional voice dictation** on text fields. Tapping the microphone opens a recording bar — a live "you're recording" cue with a timer and waveform — so people can speak their answer, then tap to add it or discard it.

## When to choose Classic

Pick a Classic form when you want quick, familiar collection, when your audience expects a traditional form, or when you want zero AI involvement. They are fully branded and support conditional logic — just no conversation.

## Related

[The Style Studio: themes & layouts](/knowledge-base/classic-forms/style-studio) · [AI Voice Forms vs Classic Forms](/knowledge-base/getting-started/ai-vs-classic-forms)