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Audio: Luke Wroblewski on Form Design05.09.2008 by LukeWI recently had the pleasure of talking with Tom Crawford, CEO of VizThink, about my Web Form Design book and its relevance for the visual thinking community.
 Check out Luke's book about Web form usability, visual design, and interaction design considerations: Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks. Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks05.04.2008 by LukeW My new book, Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks is now available for purchase in both paperback and digital editions.  Paperback and free PDF edition from Rosenfeld Media Order the book from Amazon.com (paperback only) Description Forms make or break the most crucial online interactions: checkout (commerce), registration (community), data input (participation and sharing), and any task requiring information entry. In Web Form Design, Luke Wroblewski draws on original research, his considerable experience at Yahoo! and eBay, and the perspectives of many of the field's leading designers to show you everything you need to know about designing effective and engaging Web forms. See Complete Description... Testimonials "Luke's book is by far the most practical, comprehensive, data-driven guide for solving form design challenges that plague every interface designer. It is an essential reference that will become a must-read for many years." —Irene Au Director of User Experience, Google "Luke Wroblewski has done the entire world a great favor by writing this book. Online forms are ubiquitous and ubiquitously annoying but they don't have to be. Wroblewski shows Web designers how to present forms that gather necessary information without unnecessarily badgering and annoying visitors. With deft explanations and clear examples, he presents a clear case for better Web forms and how to achieve them. This book will help you every day." —Alan Cooper Chairman, Cooper; author, The Inmates are Running the Asylum "If I could only send a copy of Web Form Design Best Practices to the designer of every web form that's frustrated me, I'd go bankrupt from the shipping charges alone. Please. Stop the pain. Read this book now." —Eric Meyer author of CSS: The Definitive Guide "Form design has historically been an afterthought, a partial chapter in past web design primers. Thankfully, we now have Luke's indispensable best practices in print. This book will now sit on my desk whenever I'm designing an application." —Dan Cederholm Principal, SimpleBits; author of Bulletproof Web Design More Testimonials... Book ContentsThanks to everyone who helped make this book possible! Especially the teams at Rosenfeld Media and Etre, and all the designers who helped contribute ideas, perspectives, and review time.  | Tags: forms, guidelines, Web applications, usability, user experience, interaction design | TrackBacks: 22Web Form Design: All 218 Images Online05.01.2008 by LukeW All 218 images from my new book, Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks (including the front and back covers) are now available for download under a Creative Commons license: Web Form Design: Filling In the Blanks (book illustrations) The book itself is on its way to the warehouse and will go on sale tomorrow morning. That means your last chance to sign up for a notification email and discount on the book is today! Audio: Filching Design04.25.2008 by LukeW An audio broadcast of the panel is now available: Filching Design: When the Shoe Fits (27.4 MB MP3) Notes on the panel: SxSW 2008: Filching Design Audio: Why Logos are Irrelevant04.23.2008 by LukeW An audio broadcast of the panel is now available: Logos: Why They're Irrelevant and Can Actually Hurt Your Business (27.9 MB MP3) Notes on the panel: SxSW 2008: Why Logos are Irrelevant Event: Influencing Strategy by Design04.20.2008 by LukeW This eight hour, hands-on course will be co-taught with Tom Chi as part of the Involution Master Academy (an educational program for experienced professionals in design and related fields) in Sunnyvale, CA. Attendance is very limited to ensure each participant gets extensive hands-on time with the instructors. Registration opens today so get in soon if you’re interested. Topics Covered
This full-day course will teach designers how to greatly expand their influence by synthesizing and articulating clear, actionable business and product strategies. Often, career opportunities for designers are artificially limited by org charts that fail to fully capitalize on the galvanizing role that design can have beyond product or marketing. This course empowers designers by giving them tools to impact strategy, by illuminating important decision-drivers like market or user research, web analytics, financials, and product reports. Created for experienced designers who want greater influence over strategic decision-making within their department or company, this hands-on course will immerse you in principles for communicating and influencing strategy and teach you and practical skills and techniques through group activities with Luke and your fellow students. By the end you will have new insight into the untapped potential that your design skills have to transform your career. See complete course details. Hope to see some of you there! | Tags: education, strategy, design vision, design organizations, decision making, communication | TrackBacks: 0IA Summit: Content page design best practices04.15.2008 by LukeWIn my Content Page Design Best Practices talks at IA Summit 2008, I presented a framework for thinking about how to optimize content pages for the dynamic ecosystem of the Web instead of the structured hierarchy of a Web site.  Content Page Design Best Practices (4MB PDF) Notes from my talk: Fulfilling the Promise of Content Pages -Geo Voices Content Page Design Best Practices -kev/null LukeW's Content Page Design Best Practices -Whitney Hess Content Page Design Best Practices -Roger Zender Official Description: In today’s social, distributed, search-driven Web, customers are finding their way to Web content through an increasing number of distinct experiences. Yet when people arrive at most Web pages, the experience they get isn’t optimized for this context. Instead, the vast majority of content pages online remain more concerned with their own context than the context of their users: where did a user arrive from and where are they likely to go next? These pages remain designed as if they were primarily accessed from a Web site’s home page or a carefully thought-out selection from the site’s information architecture. To address these issues and more, this talk outlines a set of best practices for Web content page design that focuses on appropriate presentations of content, context, and calls to action. Specifically: how can content be optimized to meet user expectations as they arrive from a diverse number of access points; what is the minimum amount of context required to frame content appropriately; how can the most relevant calls to action be presented to maximize user engagement? Applying these considerations enables information architects to deliver content experiences that take full advantage of emerging opportunities online and the existing assets within their Web sites.
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