In my current position, I am responsible for maintaining some projects that have been written and owned by a number of teams and developers over time. I certainly don’t claim to be a designer but educating myself on the fundamentals has given me a toolkit of ideas and patterns that can be applied, much like software architecture principles. My original aim was to generate some inspiration and I feel that I’ve gained some from reading this book. In fact, as I read through the book it was interesting to me just how many of the book’s practices are evident in many of the current crop of website frameworks such as Bootstrap. Chapters cover form structure and organisation as well as the individual form elements and interactions.Įven though it is almost 10 years old, the fundamentals are still sound and relevant to today’s design challenges such as mobile. The book is a collection of insights and best practices for Web form design. I have a copy of ‘Don’t make me think’ by Steve Krug and ‘Web Form Design’ comes highly recommended by other reviewers of that book. Given much of my current day to day work is presenting web forms for gathering data from users and putting that data in one system or another, I decided that it would be worth revisiting some of the web form design classics in order to generate some new inspiration around our current designs and usability. Includes the why, what and when of best practices based on experience and research. Broad overview of all the considerations that constitute good form design.
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