Comments on: Multiple Columns: Does it Hurt or Help?

By: Hugger

Hugger — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:40:05 +0000

Everyone needs a hug.

By: Mike Daffron

Mike Daffron — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:46:18 +0000

Good points about usability, no doubt. But on one form of mine, it really makes sense to have a field to the right of another one. I guess, think of it as a concept of a "grid" or axis associating 5 "colors" with 5 "products". We are in the paint business. Visually (psychologically) speaking, having the 5 color input fields next to each of the 5 product dropdowns makes MUCH more sense. If I'm asking our sales reps to enter each color on each of 5 products, going down in this sense is much harder to make those associations that across.

By: Nguyen Huu Huan

Nguyen Huu Huan — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:30:33 +0000

Everyone needs a hug.

By: Chris Campbell

Chris Campbell — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:50:14 +0000

People also do ask for what you’re talking about, Graham. Interestingly enough, doing that doesn’t seem to increase usability either (http://wufoo.com/blog/2006/12/20/multiple-columns-does-it-hurt-or-help/).

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:24:08 +0000

Hmmm. I think that makes sense regarding multiple columns. But, I wonder if the requesters of this feature are really asking for the ability to have two associated fields on one line? Something like phone number and type sitting side by side for example.