I spoke tonight at CNUG out in the burbs and promised that I would post my materials up for people to download and check out links. Below you will find my Powerpoint slides, as well as some links for deeper reading on form layouts and other things I mentioned in my presentation. Thanks for having me out to talk, I hope everyone took away something valuable!
PowerPoint deck: CNUG_Design101.pptx (396K)
Color tools:
The one I used in the demo: http://kuler.adobe.com
An alternative: http://www.colourlovers.com/
A link for the colourlovers Blend plugin: http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/dd421877.aspx
Form layout information:
Luke Wroblewski’s very awesome blog post:http://www.lukew.com/resources/articles/web_forms.html
A review of form layout methods with usability eye-tracking data: http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2006/07/label-placement-in-forms.php
Other links:
The 5 Second Test: http://fivesecondtest.com
