Label Placement in Forms – What’s Best?

Abstract

The details of forms design often absorb unreasonable amounts of designers’ time. For example, where should labels be placed? The recent fashion has been to rightjustify the labels and place them to the left of the fields - is that really always the right answer? This talk draws on the author’s 15 years’ experience of forms design and on recent eye-tracking data.

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Caroline Jarrett

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Publication date: September 2008

Publication date (Print): September 2008

Pages: 229-230

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2008.87

Copyright statement: © Caroline Jarrett. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. People and Computers XXII Culture, Creativity, Interaction

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Conference name: People and Computers XXII Culture, Creativity, Interaction

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 22

Conference location: Conference Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Conference date: 1 - 5 September 2008

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Computers XXII Culture, Creativity, Interaction

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing