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Infield top-aligned labels: use with care!

May 19, 2015

Considering putting labels infield top-aligned? You may want to read this first.

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In ArticlesTags accessibility, alignment, errors, layout, usability

Character separators in paper forms

September 18, 2014

Except for in some very special circumstances, the research shows you shouldn’t separate paper form text fields into individual characters.

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In ArticlesTags layout, paper, research

The double life of forms

January 28, 2014

When is a form not just a form? When it’s also a document!

Sure, it’s a disappointing joke, but it’s also a serious opportunity for better design.

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In ArticlesTags documentation, layout

Mad Libs madness

February 11, 2013

The last couple of years have seen a renewal of interest in ‘fill-in-the-blanks’ — or ‘mad libs’ — forms.

New Formulate research shows that in most cases, you’d be mad to use the mad libs approach.

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In ResearchTags conversation, errors, layout, question wording, questions

Well-designed error messages

January 11, 2011

In this article, after summarising the principles of well-designed error messages, we walk through a good example from a live website.

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In ArticlesTags colour, errors, layout

Perception and the design of forms — Part 6: Similarity

September 28, 2010

We’re finishing our series on visual perception and the design of forms with one of the simpler Gestalt principles: similarity.

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In ArticlesTags colour, layout, perception, principle, similarity

Perception and the design of forms — Part 5: Proximity

September 2, 2010

The law of proximity is one of the most straightforward of the visual perception principles to apply, yet poor implementation leads to a great number of hard-to-use forms.

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In ArticlesTags alignment, layout, perception, principle, proximity

Perception and the design of forms — Part 4: Figure/ground

August 12, 2010

People have a remarkable ability to find the text boxes on a form and fill them in. In this article we’ll explain why, and exactly what is needed for this to work.

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In ArticlesTags figure, ground, layout, perception, principle

Perception and the design of forms — Part 3: Colour

July 13, 2010

In this article we come to one of the meatiest aspects of visual design that influences the perception of forms: colour.

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In ArticlesTags colour, layout, perception, principle

Perception and the design of forms — Part 2: Size

June 29, 2010

This is the second in our six-part series on human visual perception and its influence on the design of forms. Nicely related to our previous concept of shape is this article’s topic: size.

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In ArticlesTags layout, perception, principle, size
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