The UI decisions behind a typical web form

I stumbled across a very useful article recently and wanted to share it around. The article discusses the best placement of form submit/cancel buttons for a typical web form and backs this up with Heat Maps showing where the user spent time looking at elements on the page etc.

Check out the Primary & Secondary Actions in Web Forms blog post yourself.

There are a lot of very useful posts on that blog - all of them focused on useability and the "dark art" of UI decision making.

Design Coding

The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) is back with another rap, this time describing how web standards and proper design can affect the ranking and conversion of pages on your site.

It's good hearty information delivered in a fun way.

http://www.molly.com/2008/04/07/design-coding-rap-for-the-rest-of-us/