>From William Brall > I disagree with #5. Picking controls is VERY important.
<snip - example> > I'd say any book worth its salt about form design would answer this > question for an online form, and thus a paper one. (Aside: sorry that the formatting of my previous email on this subject came out so badly) We do have a whole chapter on picking form controls, chapter 5. It's just that the original post asked for material on paper forms, and I felt that the chapter wouldn't be useful for paper forms. There are different considerations for designing the boxes that people write into compared to the controls that they interact with online. One day, I'll get around to writing something on choosing response spaces on paper but I haven't yet done so. As it happens, this chapter in the book is very much based on the paper that I wrote with Sarah Allen Miller called 'Should I use a dropdown?'. The paper is available at: http://www.formsthatwork.com/articlespapers/dropdown.asp During the editing process, the acknowledgement of Sarah's contribution to the book chapter got overlooked and I'm glad to be able to remedy this now. Hope this helps Caroline Jarrett ________________________________________________________________ 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
