Is there any evidence, or illuminating experience, about the benefits of
locating form labels to the left of the input fields or above them using a
smaller font?The forms are very long, say, 100 fields and more.
Will be paginated, sort of a wizard, with next/prev buttons.
The audience is rather
You might want to check out LukeW's book on form design:
http://www.lukew.com/resources/web_form_design.asp
He also has many articles and presentations on the subject.
Regards,
Maria Cordell
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Juan Lanus juan.la...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there any evidence, or
Hi Juan,
Certainly you should check out Luke W.'s book on form design:
http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/webforms/
I've read it. The guidance you're looking for is in there!
Are your form labels really long? If so you might want to stick with
single-column (labels on top) layout.
Labels on
This would be great for the Interaction '10 schedule and program
instead of the bulky menu from last year.
Sent from my iPhone
On May 8, 2009, at 6:13 PM, Angel Marquez angel.marq...@gmail.com
wrote:
http://www.pocketmod.com/
Ix version?
IxDA Phoenix will hold it's second meet up this Tuesday, May 12th
from 6pm 9pm. Gangplank (http://www.gangplankhq.com) in Chandler
has once again opened their space up to us for this event. Gangplank
is a collaborative workspace so laptops, cameras, and other gadgets
are encouraged.
If you're
You can't make people be secure. You can only help mitigate the
damages when their insecurity causes them. Invest time in dealing
with what will happen if the user leaves their laptop open to their
bank account at starbucks and then goes to the bathroom.
It is going to happen. So offer a way to
I turn off HTML email entirely. As should anyone.
Focus on making HTML email more secure, rather than making it look
good when people turn it, or part of it, off.
Crack that egg, and no one will turn it off anymore.
It is to the point where I am very impressed with sites that send out
text-only
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From: Chris Pallé chris.pa...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:56 PM
Subject: Streaming Link for redUX09 in DC
To: Chris Pallé chris.pa...@gmail.com
Hey All-
Okay, so the link is live and ready. If you can't be there is person, hope
to see you join us
On May 7, 2009, at 8:34 PM, Shima Kazerooni wrote:
What are some of the best practices in usability test of search
results pages? Do you use them?
Shima,
Your question isn't very clear.
Could you possibly explain what your situation is and what you're
hoping to learn? That might get
On May 5, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Bill Marshall wrote:
Help functionality is a recurring point of contention in nearly every
project I work on. I do Voice UX design, and very often our products
are used in-car where users can't or shouldn't be looking at a
screen for cues. Our big hurdle is helping
Is there any evidence, or illuminating experience,
about the benefits of locating form labels
to the left of the input fields or above them
using a smaller font?
The forms are very long, say, 100 fields and more.
Will be paginated, sort of a wizard, with next/prev buttons.
The audience is
I'm someone who uses BART several times in a weekend, but only one or
two weekends a year. And I'm a software tester by career.
The stops that I routinely use are the two airports, the one near
work, the one near the hotel, and the Caltrain stop.
Some comments I had:
* I don't think of
users don't use help means users don't use the crap-tastic help
that is normally provided. FAQs are about the best 'standard issue'
help out there. And they such.
Tool-tips are often panned and people forget that they are help.
So here is the deal. If the user has to stop what they are doing and
The context in which the respondents prepare for filling out the form and
then actually do fill out the form can make all the difference.
Background information:
In documentation and training, the issues that Caroline raises are handled
by instructional design.
the placement of the labels is
Don't forget 508. Easy to not think about it when dealing with
straight forward forms, but there are serious concerns. Good idea to
use the label tag and field sets.
Even if you style them to look different, readers like JAWS will add
functionality to the form for tabbing and helping the user to
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