Luke Wroblewski, Senior Director of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc., is all about small wins when it comes to designing site experiences. He is a design technician who handles his site visitors with a very humanitarian approach. Simply said, he cares about his users. In his article, Inline Validation in Web Forms, Wroblewski addresses supporting user interactions through real-time form feedback. Wroblewski, with London-based usability firm, Aramys, tested the effectiveness of Inline Validation against the more typical “Submit-and-refresh” system response.
Wroblewski summarizes his results and writes, “Our participants were faster, more successful, less error-prone, and more satisfied when they used the forms with inline validation.” But, Wroblewski and company didn’t stop there. After establishing a direct relationship between improved user-satisfaction and inline validation, the team tested five different inline validation executions and summarize findings into usage and design technique recommendations.
Check out this article and others at Luke’s site, Luke W: Interface Designs. Unlike a lot of other speakers in the UI/UX field, he’s not full of hot-air. The dude is a proven designer and knows his stuff. More importantly, he seems like a genuinly nice guy.
[...] an earlier post, I highlighted Luke Wroblewski and his suggested approach to real-time form feedback. Providing [...]