Label placement in forms: what's best?

Authors:
Caroline Jarrett
Affiliations:
Effortmark Limited, Leighton Buzzard
Venue:
BCS-HCI '08 Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction - Volume 2
Year:
2008

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Abstract

The details of forms design often absorb unreasonable amounts of designers' time. For example, where should labels be placed? The recent fashion has been to right-justify the labels and place them to the left of the fields - is that really always the right answer? This talk draws on the author's 15 years' experience of forms design and on recent eye-tracking data.