User Interface Trends » forms http://uitrends.com A place to catalog, discuss, and rate trends in user interface design Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:38:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1-beta Spec Wreck http://uitrends.com/2010/07/20/spec-wreck/ http://uitrends.com/2010/07/20/spec-wreck/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:38:08 +0000 Sarah Selser http://uitrends.com/?p=2188 Why is it so difficult to build to spec? (Just to be clear, I’m referring to all design fields, not just the software industry.)
Is compromise just an inherent part of the process? How detailed do our specs really need to be? Lately, my specs have become pretty lean. This seems to work well on a small scale because additional verbal communication adequately bridges any gaps, but what about on a larger scale when verbal communication might not be an option (due to different time zones, etc.)? Is creating detailed specs, only to have to compromise during development, really the best way to go?

]]> http://uitrends.com/2010/07/20/spec-wreck/feed/ 1 Form Design Inspiration http://uitrends.com/2010/01/19/form-design-inspiration/ http://uitrends.com/2010/01/19/form-design-inspiration/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:50:01 +0000 Jeff Noble http://uitrends.com/?p=1504 According to my admittedly flawed calculations there are approximately  the same number of articles on website form behaviors as the number of McDonald’s customers served each day.  Speaking of McDonald’s, rather than throwing up a lot of the same info, putting together yet another lame attempt at a top whatever number list, or you wasting your time going through all of these articles, I figured it might just be better to list out some of the best resources I found.  Why? Cause I have nothing better to do and hopefully some of these are helpful or at least inspirational to you.



]]> http://uitrends.com/2010/01/19/form-design-inspiration/feed/ 4 Invasion of The Captcha Monsters! http://uitrends.com/2009/08/28/invasion-of-the-captcha-monsters/ http://uitrends.com/2009/08/28/invasion-of-the-captcha-monsters/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:10:06 +0000 Jeff Noble http://uitrends.com/?p=350 Trend: Captcha Verification

Let me start of by saying something totally obvious… I am not a smart man. Shocking, I know. I also scare easily, as a kid I could never make it through a full episode of a Scooby Doo cartoon because the spooky music would always freak me out before the giant bog monster/ghost bull/angry pirate was revealed by those “meddling kids.” Seriously. Now speaking of fear inducing monsters – you know what often keeps me from completing a website form – if you guessed remembering my own name, you were totally wrong, it’s the dreaded captcha monster! Born out of the necessity to kill SPAM and limit the volume of “acai berry & increasing your manhood – wink wink” email offers, this creepy crawly has infected websites all across the Internet with a beast like efficiency .

Now let’s be honest, I can barely function on a day to day basis much less do I want to try and figure out what the hell some Rorschach type squiggly demented looking characters are after I have gone through the trouble of entering my personal info on a website. Is it a sideways V, one of those less than or greater than “alligator mouths”, a mutated 7, a giant bat? I don’t know but just like that Scooby music, I try to hang in there, but eventually I freak out and end up leaving.

Every time you vote this DOWN a Captcha monster dies.

He's cute but the captcha monster will totally eat your face off - Vote him DOWN!!!!!!!!!

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