March 25, 2008
Authors of new works from New Riders and Rosenfeld Media on web form design and designing for findability.
Findability, Orphan of the Web Design Industry
by Aarron Walter
Findability is to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as “web standards” is to “table layouts.” In a web whose vastness exceeds comprehension, sites with findable content win. The good news is that everyone on your team can help make your site findable. Get a taste for this essential discipline from Aarron Walter, author of Building Findable Websites: Web Standards, SEO, and Beyond.
Sign Up Forms Must Die
by Luke Wroblewski
You load a new web service, eager to dive in and start engaging, and what’s the first thing that greets you? A sign-up form. We can do better, says Luke Wroblewski, author of Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks. Via a technique of “gradual engagment,” we can get people using and caring about our web services instead of frustrating them (or sending them to a competitor’s site) by forcing them to fill out a sign-up form first.
