There is the first time for everything: no one has called me Olga before. Yes, by "inline" I meant validation on field blur. The "Required!" message can be delivered in many ways. I think Gregory's idea of placing suggestion inside the field itself is worth testing.
-- Oleh Kovalchuke Interaction Design is design of time http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Rachel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to everyone for your ideas so far. More ideas are welcome, too! > > Space is really tight, so I'm not sure we can allot room for a message > (unless the message appears in an overlay) > > Olga, when you say inline field validation, do you mean a popup overlay > message right above the field, which would appear as soon as they leave > focus on a field, after leaving it blank? > > Thanks > Rachel > > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Jim Drew wrote: > > > I have seen cases where a space is allotted for where an error message > will > > go if it occurs. Designed well, users with no error never notice that the > > space is there, it just integrates into the design. (I've also seen this > > done poorly, of course where there's a big obvious blank space.) > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
