Comments on: Examples of Good Form Implementations

By: Wella adsfhg

Wella adsfhg — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:40:55 +0000

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By: Tyler Freeman

Tyler Freeman — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 07:26:54 +0000

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By: Kevin Hale

Kevin Hale — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:04:00 +0000

Baron, no love for the nicetitles? Do you not like how they look or are they keeping you from clicking on the links? They should behave no different from the tooltips that show up by default on browsers.

By: Baron

Baron — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:02:00 +0000

You know, for a site that talks about usability, I have to gently chastise you for the effects you have placed on links. I am beginning to dislike the hover/popup effects greatly.

By: Adam Bramwell

Adam Bramwell — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:13:00 +0000

Tangent’s contextual help is still the best implementation that I’ve ever seen, thanks for reminding me!

Serindipidous actually, I’ll have to go poking around in that source again..

By: Bruno Torres

Bruno Torres — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:58:00 +0000

Well, odeo’s design is definitely great but the two times I looked at the subscribing form (when I subscribed and after reading this post) I stayed stall in front of it trying to figure out what each field was about. OK, Maybe I’m dumb but separating field names and inputs in two columns got me a little confused. I think when I go to a two columns page, my eyes fix at the central part and ignore, at first glance, the sidebar. Is it just me or anyone felt like this when looking at this form?

By: Yannick L.

Yannick L. — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 05:10:00 +0000

A very timely article. I have been having to use a lot more forms on the websites I am working on and would definitely like to make them more semantic and also more pleasing to the eyes. Thanks for the links.

By: Kevin Hale

Kevin Hale — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 01:05:00 +0000

Yeah, the syntax isn’t great right away, but I think they allow for a lot of different variations. It just comes to making the algorithms smarter rather than the interface more complex.

Honestly, it makes sense. From where to where, that’s how simple it should be and it gets me thinking about how decisions in interfaces should always be difficult. Every link, every element, every word should be one of the hardest things to add to a page because each item reduces the value of the other items on the page.

I get to something, I just want to get started and I’m glad Google appreciates that desire.

By: Ryan Campbell

Ryan Campbell — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:59:00 +0000

I agree with most of your list, but I question Google maps. I hate the fact that the average user has to read directions to know the correct way of entering data. Mapquest forms may be tedius, but they are usable. Now that I am familiar with Google maps, I can appreciate it more. I guess it all depends whether or not the trade off is worth it.