Luke Wroblewksi’s new book on web form design, cunningly entitled Web Form Design, is an excellent work. It’s very easy to read (I breezed through chapters 2-6 last night) and full of screenshots and bullet-pointed, actionable design guidelines at the end of each chapter.

It also has some cute design features such as the progress meter on each chapter title page:

Web Form Design chapter headings

Another neat feature is that all the book’s screenshots are available on Flickr with a creative commons license. Interestingly, ordering the physical book also entitles you to an immediately downloadable PDF version of the book which has been reformatted for screen use. However I find the choice of font used in the PDF strange. This shows a few lines of text from the PDF book at 100% zoom on Acrobat Reader 8/Windows XP:

Web Form Design typography problems

The typography is all over the place and makes the book almost unreadable on screen. Surely a sans serif font would have been a better choice?

This small gripe aside, Web Form Design is an excellent book and I highly recommend it for anyone involved in building websites.