From: Brett Lutchman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Caroline, I will however try your recommendation with moving the Previous to the left side because as you state, I have already captured the point with the Next button being vertically on the top. In my next opportunity to do this, I honestly will. As you've discovered, there often isn't one absolute best practice. It's a question of balancing: (a) the advice you get (b) - more important - the business goals you want to achieve (c) - and in my view the most important - what you find out from real users when they use it, both in real life and in usability tests. >You have taught me something here. I made adjustments to best practices because I wanted to be more effective. However, In my adjustments and effort to being more effective, if I can simply reorder my process back to having the Next on the right (based on proven studies), but yet keep my vertical separation- how much more effective will I be by amalgamating best practices and my innovations? I wouldn't put Next on the right. I'd keep Next right where you have placed it, vertically under the left-hand end of the fields. But I do agree with you: it's always worth continuing to experiment with different approaches, test them with some users, accept that sometimes the various advice and/or one's brilliant idea doesn't actually work with your users for whatever reason. > Caroline if this works, when I take over the Internet I'm putting you 2nd in Command. Steady on! (blushes) It's just a form, it isn't a solution to famine or anything :-) Caroline Caroline Jarrett Effortmark Ltd Usability - Forms - Content Phone: 01525 370 379 Mobile: 0799 057 0647 International: +44 152 537 0379 16 Heath Road Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire LU7 3AB UK ________________________________________________________________ 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
