Funky forms for interface designers.

Funky forms can help you design better interfaces, or not.

Interface designers often aren't aware of all the cool stuff forms can do for them. Here's a few examples: (remember some of this stuff isn't exactly cross browser, or even user-friendly from a usability point of view.)

Please mail me with more suggestions / ideas/ code at peter@poorbuthappy.com

1. Disabled dropdowns. (IE only)

2. Different colors in textfields.

3. visited links in menu are greyed out.

4. Second dropdown adjusts immediately depending on first choice.

This was copied from the excellent Lonely Planet website at www.lonelyplanet.com

5. Navigation that works

This type of navigation works, usability wise. It's very powerfull in complex matrixes. (We tested it for usability):

home >

And the next one would be:

home > shoes >

And the next one:

home > shoes > adidas > the amazing adidas shoe.

after this you could get funky with the matrix:

home > adidas >

and yes, it gets more complex. But we'll discuss that another time.

If you have other innovative ideas on forms and navigation, mail me at peter@poorbuthappy.com