Now on sale!
Luke Wroblewski's Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks is now available for purchase! Buy directly from Rosenfeld Media and pay US$36 for the paperback and digital editions, US$19 for digital only.
The paperback is 244 pages with high quality paper stock, a sewn binding, and a full color interior. At 6"x9", it'll be easy to stuff in your carry-on bag for reading during the flight to your next client meeting. And of course, the digital edition (373 pages) is pretty easy to take along too; in fact, it's been designed, tested, and optimized for on-screen use. Both editions are graced with 216 illustrations, which we've made available for you via Flickr to peruse, download, and use in your own presentations.
We're quite thrilled with Luke's work—from his original research to volume of practical advice he's managed to cram into this book. We hope you'll enjoy it as much as we have.
Comments
Congratulations, Luke ... and Lou!!!!
Posted by: Indi Young | May 5, 2008 9:04 PM
Yea! Just bought it. I love the digital copy that goes along with the print. Now that's forward thinking, Lou.
Posted by: Nic | May 5, 2008 11:41 PM
Have been looking forward to this one. Greatly appreciated Flickr/Screenshots sharing as well. Great cover too :)
Posted by: Ej | May 6, 2008 8:09 AM
Really enjoying the book. In the "How to Use This Book" section you state "This book’s companion Web site...includes...a place for you to engage in discussion with others interested in Web form design".
Where is this place? Is it this blog? If so, where do we ask questions that are don't have a blog topic to put them under?
Posted by: Aaron Barker | May 6, 2008 11:16 AM
Just bought the book, can't wait for it to arrive!
I found it slightly ironic when going to purchase your book on forms to have to use a poorly designed form on your publishers site. when entering your CC number it enters it using astrics!
Posted by: Brian | May 6, 2008 12:17 PM
Quick question: is the PDF DRM free?
Posted by: Eric Grubger | May 6, 2008 2:30 PM
Eric: yes, it is DRM free!
Posted by: Lou Rosenfeld | May 6, 2008 2:33 PM
Count me in then, I'm sold!
Posted by: Eric Gruber | May 6, 2008 2:56 PM
Buy the paper book, get the PDF version - with no DRM - for free?!? Sold. I'll be ordering this one!
Posted by: Grant Palin | May 6, 2008 5:44 PM
Brian, should be fixed tonight. We've known about the asterisks issue for a while, but found that it was easier to fix than originally thought.
Any other things you'd like to see fixed?
Posted by: Lou Rosenfeld | May 7, 2008 12:05 AM
Congratulations Luke!
Just saw Flickr images. Impressive!
And Thanks for the digital version.
Posted by: Pandurangan Rangaswamy | May 8, 2008 3:02 AM
Book looks good on Flickr. Any sign of this coming to Amazon.co.uk?
Posted by: Lee | May 8, 2008 9:45 AM
Hi Lee; no, not likely. We participate in the Amazon Marketplace program, where third parties can sell via Amazon's store, but fulfill the orders themselves. (The standard Amazon/publisher partnership is untenable for us--and many other publishers.) That means, unfortunately, that we only show up in Amazon US, although you can still make a purchase there even if you're outside the US. And of course, you can buy directly from Rosenfeld Media and, for the same price, also receive the digital edition. All orders--Amazon or otherwise--get processed and shipped from the same fulfillment center outside Detroit in the US.
Posted by: Lou Rosenfeld | May 8, 2008 11:14 AM
Happily thumbing through our office copies… great work, gentlemen! A beautifully designed book, for a oft overlooked topic. Having had the good fortune to see Luke present on this topic, it's so nice to have it in print, too!
Posted by: Brian Christiansen | May 12, 2008 2:58 PM
Brian, thanks for the kind words! Luke's done a wonderful job; it's an honor to be involved with his book.
Posted by: Lou Rosenfeld | May 12, 2008 3:01 PM
Luke,
Great talk at the IA Summit - can't wait to get my hands on your new book!
All the best,
Jeff
Posted by: Jeff Parks | May 12, 2008 6:12 PM
I'd really like to get my hands on a paperback-version...though, I am from Germany and 15$ shipping plus tax is a bit too much for my taste.
Anyway, I look forward to read a copy of the book someday. Great job Luke :)
Best regards from Germany, Leo
Posted by: Leonhard Melzer | May 13, 2008 3:36 PM
Hi Leo; I wish it could be cheaper. But we're actually losing money on the shipping rate, which is completely dependent on the US Postal Service, UPS, FedEx...
Posted by: Lou Rosenfeld | May 13, 2008 9:53 PM
Wow! Great book, lots of food for thought. I'm currently designing two web sites that make use of a myriad of forms and this book has been invaluable!
By the way, the thing which encouraged me to buy this book was your WEBVISION 2007 Learning to Love Forms slides (http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=learning-to-love-forms-webvisions-07-21033). I was hoping that more of what you taught in these slides was going to be in the book. Maybe you should consider a web forms "cookbook" with more examples and ideas like in the slides.
Also, like Aaron Barker asked on May 6th, where is the promised "place for you to engage in discussion with others interested in Web form design" (pg. vi)?
Again, great book. Thanks for writing it!
Posted by: Stiles Watson | June 6, 2008 1:29 PM
Hi Stiles,
Thanks for the kind words. The talk you are referencing is actually by Aaron Gustafson not me (Luke). Aaron has a perspective in the book about Web form development and a lot of insights on building forms. As I'm not a Web developer, the focus of Web Form Design is on design best practices not development.
Regarding the place for additional discussion, this blog has numerous articles on Web form design and we encourage active discussion in the comments! You can also find many form design articles at: http://www.lukew.com/ff/archive.asp?tag&forms
hope that helps, thanks~
Posted by: LukeW | June 7, 2008 12:10 AM