Jayson, I am sorry if I left room for interpreting what I said as meaning “do not do it, because we do it in a different way” – I was giving a piece of advice based on our good practice. (I do not like the term “best practice”; it implies that nothing better can be done.)
Some reasons our practice is good: 1. Users are familiar with address info coming in two shapes. 90+ percent of our users come from Outlook. 2. User tests showed that users have no problems using addresses in this format. 3. We have not had any complaints or requests (aside from “let’s add a third street address field, which we easily did). 4. This address format provides usage flexibility – users can use both the full addresses or just parts of them. 5. We help users standardize their addresses – our clients often have several offices in several countries. Best Dimiter Simov (Jimmy) Lucrat Ltd. www.lucrat.net <http://www.lucrat.net/> Netage Solutions Inc. www.netagesolutions.com <http://www.netagesolutions.com/> From: Jayson Elliot [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tue, Dec 22, 2009 17:27 Your response was "I don't think you should do it, because we do it a different way." The OP asked for best practices (although I despise that phrase) or research. Can you provide some empirical data or rationale that would support your assertions? On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Dimiter Simov <[email protected]> wrote: ...I do not think you should replace the 5-field address form, just put together the address info into an additional field... Dimiter Simov (Jimmy) Lucrat Ltd. www.lucrat.net Netage Solutions Inc. www.netagesolutions.com ________________________________________________________________ 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
