Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks by Luke Wroblewski Rosenfeld Media, 2008; version 1.0
In 37signal’s project management application, Basecamp (Figure 8.11), when a new message is created—by filling in a form, of course, people are taken to a list of existing messages where an animation indicates where the message they created appears. This context is appropriate for this action because people just added a message to this list. That’s where they can read it, edit it, delete, and comment on it. In other situations, the most appropriate context may actually be the form someone just filled in. For a records database of customer information, providing a success message on the form that your customer just updated gives that person an opportunity to review changes, make other changes, or locate other records to update.
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