Jeff Gothelf – Understanding Lean UX
No one else in the process has to get it right the first time. Designers don’t have to get it right the first time.
Excellent 30 minute podcast discussing the agile UX process.
An Extensive Guide to Web Usability
Despite differences in layout, functionality and purpose, all forms have three main aspects, as noted by Caroline Jarrett and Gerry Gaffney in their book Forms That Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability:
- Relationship Forms establish a relationship between the user and the organization.
- Conversation They establish a dialogue between the user and the organization.
- Appearance By the way they look, they establish a relationship and a conversation.
For a form to be usable, all three aspects need to be tackled.
The earlier image of Dextr’s mad-lib form prompted me to dig up this excellent Smashing magazine piece from a few months ago. It’s a long, but great read that digs into many of the issues that can crop up when designing a form.
Dextr is a yet-to-be-released social address book app with a lovely signup form. Plus, “mad lib” style forms have been shown to increase conversion by 25-40%—that’s huge!
