I personally would not want to fill a phone number field in any form, especially into a machine knowing that it will get stored in some database. So I won't know who can misuse it anytime.
If the users for whom you design for think that giving a phone number there can serve them (such as confirmation for an expensive courier delivery, or sort of something that mean important to them) it is fine to ask for a phone number. Otherwise always provide with an alternate as Marcus suggests to have one field asking for either email or phone. The forms I saw in the examples mentioned above have labels positioned to the left of the input fields. I have been lately reading repeatedly at many places advising to place the form labels above the input fields. Hope this helps too :) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46747 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
