You might want to check out LukeW's book on form design: http://www.lukew.com/resources/web_form_design.asp
He also has many articles and presentations on the subject. Regards, Maria Cordell On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Juan Lanus <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any evidence, or illuminating experience, about the benefits of > locating form labels to the left of the input fields or above them using a > smaller font?The forms are very long, say, 100 fields and more. > Will be paginated, sort of a wizard, with next/prev buttons. > The audience is rather illiterate, ages ranging from 18 all the way through > the sixties and seventies. > These are forms for applying for gov subsidies and the like, the fields > contain mostly parsonal data of the family members and the like. > > I would like to be able to tell myself which layout is more usable: two > columns or one column. > Or you may RTFM me to an old discussion ... > > Thanks! > -- > Juan Lanus > ________________________________________________________________ > 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
