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Hi there,
currently the state of the art posting seems still to be a posting form. For instance on eBay you have to fill out a form, then you can see the preview of your product posting and then you finally submit your product.
Still, on a few websites I’ve seen another model, where you don’t fill out a posting form, rather than edit the end result directly, so on eBay you would edit the product posting screen completing it’s parts. Preview becomes obsolete.
What are your thoughts of posting form vs. editing the end result directly? Is there any research on one vs. another?
Thomas
Nikolay Angelov
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Posted 2008/03/28 @ 15:06PM with
Could you give more examples?
Do you mean, instead of posting form, to start with default content (for example “Your title”, “Your description”, etc.) ,and all you need is to click it and edit directly as you edit Flickr photo titles?
Thomas Miskiewicz
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Posted 2008/03/30 @ 13:24PM with
Yes, flickr is a great example of that.
Christina Wodtke
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Posted 2008/04/12 @ 07:02AM with
Just an opinion, but it seems ot me it depends on if you need ot protect your user’s reputation, or if you have a site where you need to keep the level of discourse high. Preview interrupts the flow, and makes folks think a little bit about what they are saying. it’s unnecessary when friends are commenting on each other’s photos, but important when you are posting something that might reflect on you professionally (Linkedin), or on a big community site (metafilter) where flame wars regularly break out.
Thomas Miskiewicz
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Posted 2008/04/15 @ 11:56AM with
What do you think about posting products, Christina? Would prefer the current posting form on ebay to stay, rather than being able to edit the product posting directly?
Holger Maassen
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Posted 2008/04/24 @ 10:55AM with
Hello Thomas
You really must have a look at that story:
Sensible Forms: A Form Usability Checklist ( http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sensibleforms )
or at “BEST PRACTICES FOR FORM DESIGN” by Luke Wroblewski
( http://www.lukew.com/resources/articles/WebForms_LukeW.pd… )
... lastly … further reading for your course on information architecture/ information psychology.
... I think you have read most of the book already – despite all that my book-list “must have” ...
_Information Architecture for the World Wide Web _ by Louis Rosenfeld
_Don’t Make Me Think _ by Steve Krug
_Designing Interactions _ by Bill Moggridge
_Information Architecture for the World Wide Web _ by Louis Rosenfeld
_The Humane Interface _ by Jef Raskin
_Prioritizing Web Usability _ by Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger
_Defensive Design for the Web _ by 37signals
or maybe something in German …
Integrierte Informationsarchitektur _ von Henrik Arndt