Caroline Jarrett explains why offering users a plain field to enter their address is a better option than forcing them to use a format you’ve devised based on your own country’s standard way of expressing an address.
Category: Design
Where to place labels in forms
Small details can affect a user’s experience of filling out a form. At the 2009 UXPA conference Caroline Jarrett explains what some of those small details are and how to make forms more usable.
Designing paper forms
As the book Forms that Work: Designing web forms for usability is published, one of its’ authors, Caroline Jarrett, explains which of its chapters contain advice that can equally be useful when creating paper forms
Culture part 2 – what really matters in designing for different cultures
Caroline Jarrett shares some of her learnings from attending a conference where most participants were working cross-culturally
Design to read workshop – call for participation
Designing for people who do not read easily will actually improve usability for everyone, argues Caroline Jarrett
Colours and Culture – don’t always believe what you read
Thinking about colour in the context of different cultures can be more complicated than we’re led to believe. Caroline Jarrett points out some of the pitfalls.
Reading with Glaucoma
A woman with Glaucoma explains how her condition impacts on her ability to read, and suggests ways of designing better for people with poor sight.
Liverpool 2008 Design to read – workshop proposal
This workshop proposal, co-authored with Kate Grant, William Wong, Nisha Kodagoda and Kathryn Summers, was submitted to the British HCI Group conference in Liverpool, 2008. We were accepted and went on to hold the workshop at the conference. This versionContinue reading… Liverpool 2008 Design to read – workshop proposal
Design to read framework: audiences and advice
At the workshop in Liverpool in September 2008, we learned about: some of the reasons why people may find reading difficult some of the guidelines and design approaches we use: our advice Our audiences: reasons why people may find reading difficult In theContinue reading… Design to read framework: audiences and advice
Label placement in forms: what’s best?
Introduction Forms are ubiquitous and a major way in which websites can become interactive. But they tend to receive little design attention – and much of that is spent arguing about details. This talk looks at one of those details:Continue reading… Label placement in forms: what’s best?