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Form Design: Mutually Exclusive Tabs vs. One Form

I am working on a form design that has two mutually exclusive forms accessible via tabs (Option 1). During usability testing my team observed users missing the tabs and only noticing them when we asked a follow-up question. As a result, we want to combine the two forms and let the user choose if they would like to perform a reservation or promotional search.

We developed two options: checkbox next to the submit button (Option 2) or two submit buttons (Option 3). Which option would make the most sense? I think that giving the user two submit buttons/actions will introduce confusion.

Three mockups showing the described options

Thanks for the help!

erik_lev
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