Inside the Fold

Last week I began reading “Web Form Design” by Luke Wroblewski and I haven’t really put it down. It’s a thriller with great examples and well thought out and tested practices.

Everyone has had both the good, bad and ugly form experience. As a front end designer and developer I have had the pleasure of taking the shopping cart on Chroniclebooks.com site from painful to fluid and usable.

I spend the majority of my time on the computer and surfing the web. Hours come and go but when I have decided to make a purchase and it takes longer than 2 minutes I feel frustrated and I usually abandon the sale.

Web, web, web…I get into the trenches and read, work and digest web. Well I am happy to say I also try and balance my obsession with some history, fiction and science too.

I had been reading/listening to Andy Rutledge’s Design View posts and thinking about maintaining my well rounded world view. I now have a simple but wonderful email in my in-box daily from Merriam-Webster entitled “Word of the Day.” Now it’s part of my morning ritual as I crunch away on my cereal to read the word with my wife and the etymology of the word.