To chime in here. Caroline lays it out exactly right in terms of when
and how people come to the end of the answering the questions they
need to on a form. Hence the the principle of putting the action that
allows them to make forward progress right in their "line of fire".
One of the reasons there may be so much debate about this topic is
that often designers/developers assume they are making a "wizard" and
that people will need to move back and forward through a series of
steps. In the vast majority of Web forms, people just want to get
through them and move on. I've seen this reinforced in many form
analytics.
anyhow, the conversation prompted me to write up my two cents on this
topic:
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?730
thanks to everyone's contributions on this list! it helps makes the
Web better when we all get together and fix the design of forms!
On Sep 19, 2008, at 4:52 AM, Caroline Jarrett wrote:
At some point, the boxes to type into run out but users don't know
that
until it happens. The eyes have dropped vertically, and look: no
more boxes.
Ideally, at this point, the vertical drop puts you directly onto the
button
that finishes this page of the form: send, submit, next, ok,
whatever is
appropriate in the context.
If the button isn't just there in the vertical column, then the eyes
hunt
around a bit, looking for the correct button.
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