Thanks for looking at my form. I would however like to respond to some of your constructive criticism.
"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)" Unfortunately this was a client must have, I could not have put a $ in the field before you entered the information to alert the user of what is expected. The client did not care for inline form verification either. They liked modals and that is what they wanted to have. "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.." The form was broken up into groups in order to not overwhelm users which was one of the main issues with the original form. Also I tried to address this issue by having the groups labeled at the top of the form (which you can click and navigate through) along with a visible indication of which group you were currently at. This certainly could have been addressed with a progress meter or some other indication of how far along the user is in the form as per you suggestion. This is definitely something we need to address and fix. Something I did not mention about this form is that when it was deployed, the total number of donations rose about 150% over last year when and older form was used. This is my first major iteration of the form and I obviously need to fix some issues. I hope others learn from my mistakes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48008 ________________________________________________________________ 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
