Jon Hadden

"Forms suck!" these are the first two words of a great form design book, "Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks," by Luke Wroblewski. Let's face it, filling out a form does suck. Whether you are renewing your drivers license or buying a book on amazon.com, discovering you incorrectly filled out a form is annoying, multiply that by ten when you are using an online form. You spend a minute filling in a registration form only for the browser to refresh and display an error message telling you, the "I agree to the terms"...

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• interaction design
• jquery

I have been with my bank for most of my young life. I have used their website many times, but I've always wanted to redesign their site. I redesigned the visual face and information architecture of the site to organize the sites content first by user role, and second by user task. The following image is my interpretation of a redesign of usfed.org. My process for this project, followed a user-centered design methodology that included user research and early design testing.

Let the blog posts begin! I spent a few hours this last weekend turning my XHTML portfolio site into a WordPress theme. There is still a few more hours of work to get the site to look exactly how I want it, but the basic functionality is there for now. Check back over the next week to read everything about my work as a user experience designer and front-end developer. What to write...

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• making progress