Label placement in forms (and other time-consuming controversies)

Label placement in forms (and other time-consuming controversies)

Have you ever been caught in one of those arguments about whether labels should go above the fields on forms?

In this talk, Caroline Jarrett will use eye-tracking data and her many years experience of forms, to give you ideas for the next time that happens to you . She’ll also get us thinking about some other details of forms, like required field indicators and colons on labels.

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Caroline Jarrett started to work with forms when delivering Optical Character Recognition systems to the then Inland Revenue. The systems didn’t work very well, and it turned out that the problems arose because people made mistakes when filling in forms. She developed a fascination with the challenge of making forms easy to fill in, a fascination that shows no signs of wearing off over 15 years later.

Caroline is co-author of ‘Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability', the companion volume to Ginny Redish’s hugely popular book 'Letting go of the words: Writing web content that works'. She has persuaded their publisher to donate a copy of each book at this event so come along on the night to be in with a chance of winning one of them!

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There is no charge for UPA members only.

For non-members the cost is £10, and for student non-members £5 - payable at the door (hence the event appearing 'free' above!)

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