I've had to design a few such forms, but normally prefer to break down large wizard-ish processes into separate distinct actions rather than lead people down a complicated multi-step form...
Anyway, I've had some success meeting both the logical and efficiency objectives Brett describes by making the Next button the tab immediately following the last form field, in the lower right corner, while placing the Previous button (less prominently displayed) far to the left, in the lower left corner. The placement on either side of the form indicates more clearly that clicking Previous takes you backward, while the most likely action lets you tab to the Next button and complete all of the forms pretty quickly. Hitting tab after the Next button jumps to the left to the Previous button, then to the top of the form again. Also, hitting Enter from within the form (as long as the req'd fields are completed) is as good as hitting the Next button, as well, for even more efficiency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32945 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
