This article focuses on providing new members with an effective join/signup process. Although some of these principles may seem obvious, I’ve gone through plenty of membership signup forms that still suck. So hence the post.

Usability Form Design And The Fallacy Of The Required Field I was on a mailing list today, and this came across: “Use red asterisks — they’re the standard for showing required fields.” Standards are wonderful, but if I asked my mom with is the international symbol for a required field, she would look at me [...]