Web Form Design
Luke Wroblewski’s new book, Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks, has just been published by Rosenfeld Media. This promises to be a very insightful book, and I’m looking forward to reading it. I’m also particularly interested in this book because I made a small contribution to it. I wrote one of several “perspectives” included in the book, explaining some of the detailed decisions made in the design of an Incident Report used by Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians in the U.S. military.
From Rosenfeld’s site:
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.
If forms are typically part of the projects you work on, I expect this to be a valuable reference.