The customer is a stranger
from @gerrymcgovern
It’s rude to ask your customers too much, too soon. Some great insights.
Tag Archives: forms
Useful form design checklist
Useful form design checklist
(by @boagworld via @richardsedley)
Great examples of functionality to improve #ux in forms
Super-usable ecommerce websites that I love #1: Nabru
Super-usable ecommerce websites that I love #1: Nabru
(via @Pod1)
Nice choice and good summary of Nabru’s key features
Small design decisions that qu…
Small design decisions that quickly add up to better mobile form design
(via @lukewdesign)
Narrative style Web forms increased conversion
Narrative style (“mad lib”) Web forms increased conversion 25-40% in one series of A/B testing
via @lukewdesign
The Apple Store’s Checkout Form Redesign
The Apple Store’s Checkout Form Redesign
via @lukewdesign
Nicely done & well worth the time it took 
#ux
Reese Witherspoon ‘bigs up’ Code-produced site for Refuge on Jonathan Ross
Reese Witherspoon ‘bigs up’ Code-produced site for Refuge on Jonathan Ross
via @computerlovers
Quince: UI Design Patterns
Now bare with me on this – I found a blog site which contains a review of a really useful site containing UX libraries, which is doubly noteworthy because it presents the patterns in a very usable and very lovely UI.
So, my dilemma is do I post a link to the review or direct to the site with the patterns?
I’ll start by posting a link to the blog site I found the link on, as the blog owner, Patrick Neeman does a really nice job of explaining the patterns site’s features:
Patrick Neeman’s blog: http://www.usabilitycounts.com/2009/02/03/cool-website-tuesdays-infragistics-quince/
And Patrick’s comment:
I can never say Infragistics right, but they produce top notch controls for the ASP.NET world. Now they have something else that is way cool: Quince, a great little directory of user interface patterns that is built using SilverLight. J. Ambrose Little, a User Experience guy over there, wrote an extensive blog post about the new tool.
You can navigate through different patterns four different ways (I find user tasks especially useful), search them via keyword, and see sort through them by letter. Very, very easy to use.
The best part? If you have a design pattern you want to submit, you can do it through the site, and the Infragistics team will review it and post it. It’s got all the requisite social networking tools with it!
And here’s a couple of screenshots of the Quince site:
Quince patterns explorer - View by wireframe location
Quince patterns explorer - Pattern detail
Followed by the all important link: http://quince.infragistics.com/
Enjoy!
The $300 Million Button
Here’s a great article from Jared M. Spool of uie.com that explains how a simple button on a form can strongly users’ perceptions, and how removing said button can alter the user journey with quite dramatic results:
Extract:
While Luke Wroblewski was writing his well-received book, Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks, he asked if I could think of an example where a change in a form’s design made a noticeable difference in business. “You mean like $300 million of new revenue?” I responded. “Yes, like that.” said Luke. So I wrote this article, which he published in his book.
Original article: http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button
Web Application Form Design
This site has been around for some time, but Luke’s work is arguably some of the most definitive in the field of web form design, so its always worth re-iterating.
Web Application Form Design
by Luke Wroblewski
http://www.lukew.com/resources/articles/web_forms.html
Here’s a couple of examples of some of his findings:
Vertical labels
Left-Justified horizontal labels
His online articles form the basis of a book, available through Rosenfeld Media: Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks. I heartily recommend it!