Designing UX : Forms / by Jessica Enders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Enders, Jessica, author.

Series:

Aspects of UX (Series)

Aspect of UX

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

User-centered system design.

Human-computer interaction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Designing user experience : forms

Place of Publication:

Collingwood, Victoria : SitePoint, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A recent study found that on average, designing a form to have a great user experience almost doubled the rate of successful first-time completions. For example, Ebay made an additional $USD 500 million annually from redesigning just the button on one of their mobile form screens. More conversions, fewer dissatisfied users, better return on investment. Can you afford not to improve your forms' user experiences? This book will walk you through every part of designing a great forms user experience. From the words, to how the form looks, and on to interactivity, you'll learn how to design a web form that works beautifully on mobiles, laptops and desktops. Filled with practical and engaging insights, and plenty of real-world examples, both good and bad.

Contents:

Designing UX: Forms; Notice of Rights; Notice of Liability; Trademark Notice; About Jessica Enders; About SitePoint; Table of Contents; Preface; Who Should Read This Book; Conventions Used; Tips, Notes, and Warnings; Hey, You!; Ahem, Excuse Me ...; Make Sure You Always ...; Watch Out!; Supplementary Materials; Introduction; Designing Forms Is the Worst Best Job in the World; Some (Crucial) Definitions; Three Dimensions; Which Forms This Book Is About; Online; Mobile; Touch; Accessibility; Performance; One Design to Rule Them All; What Makes a Good Form?; Form Projects

Form-specific Information GatheringQuestions to Ask; What If You're Doing Agile Development or Lean UX?; What If the Form Is Part of a Bigger Web Project?; How to Ask; Who to Ask; Metrics; Metrics Can Highlight Design Issues; Don't Copy Others; A Guiding Principle for Form Design; Words; Words Matter Most; Questions; Good Form Questions Are Hard to Find; What Is a Question?; Four-stage Model for Question Answering; Comprehension: Understanding Words and Meaning; Plain Language Resources; Full Sentence or Brief Prompt?; Retrieval: Searching Memory, Feelings, Thoughts and Sources; Satisficing

Judgement: Checking Answer Suitability, and Making AdjustmentsAnswering: Physically Providing the Answer; Open Versus Closed; Characteristics of Usable Closed Answer Fields; Alphabetical Order; Punctuation at the End of the Label; Question-level Help; Rotten Repetition; Deciding What Questions to Ask; Information Need; Data Quality; How Long Is Too Long?; Common Questions; Title; Don't Use Title as a Proxy; Name; Resources About Names; Address; Email; Phone; Date of Birth; Sex and Gender; Credit Card Details; Display Payment Options; Other Words in Forms; Headings; Form Title

Section HeadingsQuestions Posing as Section Headings; Step Headings; Button Labels; Messages; Error Messages; General Instructions; Yours or Mine?; Start Without Pronouns; Where Pronouns Can Be Helpful; Referring to More Than Two Parties; Words That Work; Layout; A Mantra: It's All about Balance; For Realz; Abbreviations; Choose Your Field Types; Problems with Using "Enhancements" to Answer Field Types; Issues with Dropdowns; What to Use Instead of a Dropdown; Long Lists of Options; Implementing Country Text Box with Auto-suggest; Segmented Controls and Switches

What to Use Instead of a Segmented Control or SwitchDate Pickers; International Date Picking; What to Use Instead of (or in Addition to) a Date Picker; One Text Box or Many?; Sliders and Steppers; Sliders in HTML5; Spinners; What to Use Instead of a Slider or Stepper; Single Checkboxes; Alignment; Vertical Path to Completion; Don't Put Questions Beside Each Other; Aligning Answer Fields; Label Placement; What about That Study?; Avoiding the Gutter; Button Alignment; Single-step Forms; Multi-step Forms; Buttons on Mobile; Spacing; Proximity; Always Show Question-level Help; Text Box Widths

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 3, 2016).

ISBN:

9781457199912

1457199912

9781492017547

149201754X

9781492017530

1492017531

OCLC:

959736256