I gave the form a try in Safari.
The first field is not labelled, so I took a guess and entered a
dollar amount. Upon hitting the dollar symbol (because there was no
indication onscreen otherwise) I was slapped with a rather rude error
message. (there are ways to avoid this error with both frontend and
back end code)
Each field presented itself one at a time, so that as a user I had no
idea how much information would be expected of me, or how long the
form would take to complete.
There were a number of technical errors, but I will skip over that for
now.
The main concern I would have is that the form breaks users
expectations of being able to tab quickly through fields to a visible
goal, and does not provide a visible system status or adequately
prevent errors or help users recover from errors.
I would definitely put this through some usability testing and
refinement as soon as possible.
Jayson
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On Dec 22, 2009, at 12:08 PM, kenton_hankins <[email protected]>
wrote:
I recently created an online giving form using a jQuery plugin called
coda slider (http://jqueryfordesigners.com/coda-slider-effect/)
Combining this will some show/hide functionality helped me create a
very pleasant and easy to use form. You can play with the form at
https://www.valpo.edu/givetovu/artsandsciences/cd/
Hope this helps you and inspires some creativity.
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