Usability issues with multi-column form layouts

Here’s an interesting eye tracking study done on web page forms that have multiple columns of form fields. The conclusion is that people found multi-column layouts more confusing than a single column ones (with a few small exceptions). Using multi column forms in Enrich is a request I hear sometimes because some feel that there’s [...]

Posted at 3:31 pm on August 18, 2011 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Uncategorized | read on

Afterthought: the free PostSharp alternative

Jamie Thomas at VC3 has released Afterthought, a free, open source alternative to the very excellent, but not free, PostSharp. The API is somewhat different than PostSharp’s but it accomplishes the same thing. We’ll be using it on our various projects at VC3 to help us integrate our ORM with ExoGraph. It supports .NET 4 [...]

Posted at 3:51 pm on April 11, 2011 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Uncategorized | read on

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I’m Matt Hooper and I’m lucky enough to be able to make a living creating software that makes people better off. I work for VC3 in Columbia, SC and where I’m the product architect for Enrich (aka TestView), a web-based student performance management system for K-12 schools.


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