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Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability

Author: Caroline Jarrett and Gerry Gaffney
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers © 2009

Guidance intended to improve the accuracy and completeness of data gathered from Web site visitors and makes the task easier for the user to accomplish.

  1. Persuading People to Answer
  2. Asking for the Right Information
  3. Making Questions Easy to Answer
  4. Writing Useful Instructions
  5. Choosing Forms Controls
  6. Making the Form Flow Easily
  7. Taking Care of the Details
  8. Making a Form Look Easy
  9. Testing
  1. Interludes
    • Registration Forms
    • Providing Help
    • Farewell to Pop-Ups