Web Form Design Patterns - Smashing Magazine Survey
On Friday, Smashing Magazine posted the first part of Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms where they sampled 100 sites and analyzed each site’s web form. The results are interesting and a great way to see how sites are implementing web forms these days.
What’s surprising, however, is that Smashing Magazine has taken the if popular sites are doing it, than this is the right way to do it approach. But when it comes to usability, Jakob Nielsen argues that 99% of sites are doing it wrong.
So by encouraging designers to follow popular trends, is Smashing Magazine helping to proliferate bad design?
Do the popular sites do it right? Is it right for you? If you really want to design better web forms that will lead to more form completions, read Luke Wroblewski’s new book Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks. He not only shows you what others are doing but explains why they are doing it. You’ll design better forms that fit your site.
