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UX Design PatternsForm-Field Validation: The Errors-Only Approach

From Christian Holst
June 27th, 2012
46 Comments

Error pages for form-field validation are dreadful. You’ve just filled out 20 form fields, yet you get the same bloated page thrown back in your face because a single field failed to validate. I clearly recall the often loud sighs of despair during our last usability study each time a ...

An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

From Justin Mifsud
November 8th, 2011
70 Comments

Contrary to what you may read, peppering your form with nice buttons, color and typography and plenty of jQuery plugins will not make it usable. Indeed, in doing so, you would be addressing (in an unstructured way) only one third of what constitutes form usability. In this article, we’ll provide practical ...

Improve The User Experience By Tracking Errors

From Lara Swanson
October 4th, 2011
27 Comments

It’s easy to see your top-visited pages, navigation patterns and conversion metrics using visitor-tracking tools like Google Analytics. However, this data doesn’t show the roadblocks that users typically run into on your website. Tracking and optimizing error messages will help you measurably improve your website’s user experience. We’ll walk through ...

New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms

From Luke Wroblewski
August 22nd, 2011
79 Comments

For many of us, logging into websites is a part of our daily routine. In fact, we probably do it so often that we’ve stopped having to think about how it’s done… that is, until something goes wrong: we forget our password, our user name, the email address we signed ...

Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins

From Anthony T
May 5th, 2011
154 Comments

There are many ways to design sign-up and log-in forms. Most designers are familiar with the conventional ways. But understanding and applying a few innovative techniques could make your forms simpler and more efficient to fill out. In this article, we’d like to present a couple of new ideas that might ...

Forms On Mobile Devices: Modern Solutions

From Luke Wroblewski
March 11th, 2010
5 Comments

Mobile forms tend to have significantly more constraints than their desktop cousins: screens are smaller; connections are slower; text entry is trickier; the list goes on. So, limiting the number of forms in your mobile applications and websites is generally a good idea. When you do want input from users ...

Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms

From Vitaly Friedman
July 4th, 2008
112 Comments

If you want to maximize the revenue of your service you need to maximize completion rates of your web forms. Unless you have some revolutionary ideas to impress your visitors at first glance, it is not enough to simply enable users to sign up on your site. To make it ...