Designing a form or interface screen has been compared to watching an Olympic gymnast: It looks deceptively simple until you actually try to do it yourself. Consider the following questions:

a. On the basis of your own experience, as well as your readings from this and other textbooks, what makes one form or interface screen “good”

and another one “bad”?

b. Pick a form or interface screen that you feel is particularly horrible. Describe why.

c. Redesign the form or screen into one that you feel is “good.”

d. Have a couple of fellow students or associates compare and critique the “before” and “after”

versions of the form or screen. How did they rate your “after” version compared to the

“before” version?

e. Can you have a well-designed form or screen if the data itself that is to be captured is not well designed? Why or why not?

f. In today’s global village, would a form or interface screen design that is considered good in one culture be considered universally good? How much of an influence do cultural differences have upon design?