Web Application Form Design

Luke Wroblewski has written about Web Application Form Design in User Interface Engineering on 26th June 2006. To quote:-

Quite rare is the Web application that doesn’t make extensive use of forms for data input and configuration. But not all Web applications use forms consistently. Variations in the alignment of input fields, their respective labels, calls to action, and their surrounding visual elements can support or impair different aspects of user behavior.

Web Changes Nature of the Organization

Gerry McGovern has written about "The Web Organizations" on his "New Thinking" web site on 18th June 2007. To quote:-

From a closed, centralized, cohesive unit, the organization is being changed by the Web into an open, dispersed, cohesive network.

In the beginning of the Web was the link, not the word. Linking is an inherently open, collaborative, and sharing activity.

The Web organization is

• measured by how linked it is,
• is nomadic. Its home is wherever its links are, wherever its content is re-published, wherever what it is about is being talked about.
• thinks beyond the website
• strives to be a hub, not an outpost.
• actively seeks out and encourages others to link to it.
• participates. It starts and contributes to conversations, and does not worry about who came up with the idea first.
• spends more time thinking about what it should share than what it shouldn't. Its first position is: Let's share this unless there's a really good reason not to. It assumes that its competitors know it already. It sees its strength in the network it is building, not necessarily what is on the network at any point in time.
• sees openness as a key strength and closedness as a major weakness.