I wish I had noted the typos as I was reading your book, but unfortunately I didn’t. But if I find any while browsing it (which I probably will, building my next web form) I’ll be happy to contribute to your errata page.

My problem wasn’t with all illustrations. The screen shots were fine and the comics as well, it was some others that to me looked a bit unpolished.

I think the three-layers model works beautifully, great job!

Thanks for your comment!

Thanks for reviewing our book. I’m very pleased that you recommend it.

On the subject of the typos: just shows that no matter how hard I tried, a few still managed to creep through. please let me know what errors you found. I’ll create an ‘errata’ page that lists them.

(And by the way, the second-to-last word in your first paragraph should be ‘these’ not ‘theses’ )

On the subject of the illustrations: it’s a tough one. We found that one of the hardest parts of writing the book was finding appropriate illustrations. On the one hand, it’s not difficult to find forms that have all sorts of problems in them (that’s why we wrote the book). On the other hand, it can be surprising hard to find an example that just has a specific type of problem and isn’t full of loads of other distracting errors. Was your problem with all of the illustrations, or just specific ones? There are 226 altogether.

We’re really pleased that you liked the organisation of the book around the three-layer model. Over the years, I’ve found that the three layers really help me to think about the different issues in forms design so it’s great that it worked for you.

best
Caroline Jarrett