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Web Form Design: Filling In The Blanks (2008)

by Luke Wroblewski(Favorite Author)

4.16 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1933820241 (ISBN13: 9781933820248)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Rosenfeld Media

review 1: A must read book for anyone that wants to call himself a IA or UX designer. Web forms are essential elements of the web, and usually the ones that can frustrate the users the most. Mastering them, will help you create more user-friendly web sites and seamless online experiences. The author, Luke Wroblewski, is one of my UX heroes and manages to make a mundane theme like web forming, sexy and exciting. I definitely recommend this book if you ever plan to design a form.
review 2: I really liked this book. I read a good handful of UX and design books... mostly because I’m curious how other people see my profession and also because I don’t believe that I can stop learning. I’m driven to keep consuming books!The problem I have with a lot of UX books is that ... morethey just reiterate the same principles over and over again: put your user first, get feedback, design before implement, etc. The authors just find different ways of saying the same thing but within the context of their knowledge. That isn’t the to say that there isn’t value in reading them, but I can get more than bored.I like this book for a few reasons:1. It had actual research to support the claims that were being made. It shows results of eye-tracking data and qualitative metrics of how users engaged with different forms. The question of whether or not to put labels above, left, or right of the field was responded to with actual data.2. The book was succinct. Rather than make the book cover every possible application ever that has used a form, it kept to web forms and talked about specific examples with lots of pictures. This helped make the arguments direct and understandable.3. The book was short. Even though it is about 200 pages, with all of the pictures and how the type was set you could get through the whole thing in a handful of hours. I took my time with it, reading a chapter or three a day. But, if I had to or wanted to, I could have gotten through it much faster. The shortness also helped with keeping the argument of the book to a point.4. The end of each chapter had take-away points. When reading the book, this didn’t help a lot. But, I know that this is one of those books I’ll probably be returning to frequently. Having that kind of reference is going to help considerably in the future.I would encourage all but a few staple UX tomes to be just like this book. Find a topic that has usability and user issues, write a book summarizing best practices and the research surrounding them, and then ship it off. I will buy them all. less

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