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Basic best practices for buttons

Caroline Jarrett 2 November 2021 7 May 2012
Basic best practices for buttons

Buttons on websites? Nothing special: just an ordinary everyday element of interaction design. Despite this, it’s rather too easy to find buttons that don’t conform to some basic best practices. Here are my basic best practices for buttons: Make buttons look likeContinue reading… Basic best practices for buttons

Buttons on forms and surveys: a look at some research

Caroline Jarrett 18 November 2019 12 April 2012
Buttons on forms and surveys: a look at some research

Where to put the buttons on forms? There seem to be endless discussions: Does ‘submit’ or ‘send’ or ‘OK’ go to the left or right of ‘cancel’? Does ‘next’ go to the left or right of ‘previous’? My views are:Continue reading… Buttons on forms and surveys: a look at some research

Labels and buttons on forms – and other time-consuming controversies

Jane Matthews 25 November 2019 12 May 2011
Labels and buttons on forms – and other time-consuming controversies

These slides are from my course presentation to CHI2011, the conference of the SIGCHI, held in Vancouver, Canada. Labels and buttons on forms from Caroline Jarrett #forms #formsthatwork

UXLX: Label placement in forms – and other time-consuming controversies

Caroline Jarrett 20 May 2022 18 May 2010
UXLX: Label placement in forms – and other time-consuming controversies

Here’s a look at current research into where to place labels – the text that stands for a question – if you want your forms to be usable. This presentation to the 2010 User Experience Conference in Lisbon also examines someContinue reading… UXLX: Label placement in forms – and other time-consuming controversies

Buttons on forms – where to put them, and what to call them

Jane Matthews 20 March 2020 31 August 2008
Buttons on forms – where to put them, and what to call them

Here’s a question that I get asked quite often: “Should we put ‘OK’ button to the left or the right of the ‘Cancel’ button?” A common variant is to ask the same question with ‘Back’ or ‘Previous’ instead of ‘Cancel’,Continue reading… Buttons on forms – where to put them, and what to call them

Rules for labelling buttons

Jane Matthews 10 December 2019 30 January 2006
Rules for labelling buttons

It was one of those really conscientious discussions that seemed to have no end. First UI designer: ‘Right. Now here we have a tabbed dialogue box. When you press ‘Cancel’, it should remove all the changes the user has doneContinue reading… Rules for labelling buttons

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cjforms Caroline Jarrett @cjforms ·
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Today I learned that in La Paz, Bolivia, people dressed in zebra costumes help folks to cross the road at zebra crossings 🦓

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This is one of @Lenniesaurus's best ever

✨Lentil Pentil✨ @Lenniesaurus

Roll up, roll up. 🚨 https://twitter.com/Lenniesaurus/status/1542219042219507713

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amy_hupe Amy Hupe @amy_hupe ·
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I’ve written about why we need to change the way we describe bad design patterns - and what to say instead.

Thanks to @candiwrites and @CuriousScutter for making me aware of this issue in the first place.

⚠️ Content warning: racist language

https://bit.ly/3nuC3lt

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In today's episode of "Fix the forms, one at a time", I've had to give up on notifying @nsandihelp about my father's death online because of the rigid and unhelpful structure of their online form.

Now doing a paper form. Which is in 6pt type. Or smaller. Why?

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monaghan_lizy liz monaghan @monaghan_lizy ·
30 Jun

Photos shared with permission
Today at the hospice we were privileged to share a special moment between our patient and her horse.
Thank you to all that were involved in making this happen. @fnhcofficial @BucksHealthcare

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