Functioning Form: Interface DesignFunctioning Form: Merging medium and message in interface design, the user experience design process, Web applications, and more.Smart Defaults in Registration Forms- June 17, 2008 Ever get an invitation to join a Web site in your Inbox With the increasing popularity of social Web applications, its getting hard to find people who have not. So chances are you know the drill. Get invited by a friend via email, then go to the Web site and fill in a registration form so you can join. Heres an example of that progression on MySpace. The MySpace invitation email simply directs people to the front page of the site leaving them to hunt for a sign up link on their own. Once...http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?690 Review: Web Form Design- June 13, 2008 Reviews for my new book, Web Form Design, are starting to appear. One of the first comes from Will Evans, Principal User Experience Architect at Semantic Foundry, who kindly gave me permission to reprint it here. Thanks Will! Book review Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks Publisher: Rosenfeld Media, May 2008 The scene is all too familiar. You're presenting wireframes of the registration process for a new web application when the discussion veers down a dark alley. The sky has turned...http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?689 International Address Fields in Web Forms- June 9, 2008 Since publishing Web Form Design, one of the most frequent questions I've gotten about online forms is How do I deal with international addresses So for my Communication Design column in UXmatters this month, I outlined many of the international address variations designers need to consider and a few solutions to the problem. Check out the article at UXmatters: International Address Fields in Web Forms As enablers of online conversations between businesses and customers, Web forms are...http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?688 Web Form Design: Labels Within Inputs- June 1, 2008 Ive written extensively about the differences between top, right, and left aligned labels on Web forms. While these considerations account for the majority of form layout options, they dont cover all the possible ways form labels could be presented on a page. One alternative I get asked about quite regularly is labels within input fields. In cases where available screen real estate is scant, combining labels and input fields into a single user interface element may be a tempting way to...http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?687 |