But for most of us, forms are just an annoyance. You may turn up an accountant who gets a rush when wrapping up a client’s tax return or perhaps a desk clerk who loves to tidy up office payroll. If you don’t believe me, try to find people who like filling them in. Wroblewski lays out his stall right from the outset:įorms suck. Web Form Design is written from a position of sympathy with everyone who has had to struggle through a bad form, and that is pretty much all of us. It deserves a place on every user experience or web designer’s bookshelf right next to Steve Krug’s classic Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability Should be as interesting as watching paint dry, but instead Luke Wroblewski has written on of the best books on user experience and web usability that I have read for some time. A year! What a sad indictment – whoever designed those should be weeping right now.īy rights a whole book devoted to Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks The ones lying under the book in the picture above have been sitting on my desk for a year waiting to find someone who can understand them. Germany is full of bureaucrats that love them, but their forms are amongst some of the most poorly designed I have ever encountered.
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