How to design effective input?

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1. Design useful input forms for people interacting on the Web • Design useful input pages for users of intranets and the Internet.

2. Make forms easy to fill in • Ensure that forms meet the purpose for which they are designed • Design forms to assure accurate completion • Keep forms attractive. Design forms to make people do the right thing with the form.

3. Keep the display simple • Keep the display presentation consistent • Facilitate user movement among display screens and pages.

4. Locate information in the same area each time a new display is accessed • Information that logically belongs together should be consistently grouped together • Information should not overlap from one group to another.

5. The three-clicks rule says that users should be able to get to the screens they need within three mouse or keyboard clicks • Movement among screens: • Scrolling by using arrows or PgDn keys • Context-sensitive pop-up windows.