Load List Values for Improved Efficiency

Reduce the number of database hits and improve your Web application's efficiency when you load common shared list values only once. In this code-filled article, learn to load the values for drop-down lists when your Web application starts and then to share these loaded list values among all the users of your application.

Karanam, Srinivasa Rao. IBM (2005). Design>Web Design>Forms>User Centered Design

The Long Road to Simple: Creating, Debating, and Iterating "Add an Event"

Sometimes there's a lot more to simple than meets the eye. To the customer, this is just a few obvious words in a small box. But really, that's the point.

Signal vs. Noise (2007). Design>Web Design>Forms>User Centered Design

Sign Up Forms Must Die

You load a new web service, eager to dive in and start engaging, and what's the first thing that greets you? A sign-up form. We can do better, says Luke Wroblewski, author of Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks. Via a technique of "gradual engagment," we can get people using and caring about our web services instead of frustrating them (or sending them to a competitor's site) by forcing them to fill out a sign-up form first.

Wroblewski, Luke. List Apart, A (2008). Articles>Web Design>Forms>User Centered Design

Ten Tips To A Better Form

The most monotonous entities in the known universe, forms, are a staple of every web programmer's balanced diet. Whether we like them or not, forms are the gatekeepers to our site’s goodies and often their design alone determines whether a user will try what you’re selling or simply walk away. Without pomp or circumstance, here are ten tips to transform your plain vanilla into double chocolate chunk with marshmallows.

Campbell, Chris. Particletree (2005). Design>Web Design>Forms>User Centered Design

Strategies on How To Motivate Users to Sign Up Through Design 

Be it web-based applications or online services, they are taking the Internet by storm. Many websites introducing these services are created and launched to get users to sign up and use the software (hopefully for a long-term). The question is: How do we get users from the unfamiliar zone into the interested zone and subsequently becoming a first time use?

Onextrapixel (2009). Articles>Web Design>User Centered Design>Forms