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Wufoo : A UI that Really Cares (viget.com)
33 points by unfoldedorigami on March 26, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments



The emotional state drop-down is a wonderful idea! Don't mind if I borrow that for my contact forms :-)


"A drop down menu that ignores corporate jargon, came to terms with the fact there may actually be a flaw in THEIR system, and inquired about my emotional state."

I think support forms should have an Eliza program built-in:

"I have a problem with my email." "So how do you feel about your problem with email?" "Just fix the problem!" "Tell me more about fix the problem."

That aside, enquiring about my emotional state would annoy the hell out of me :-}


It sort of feels like ALICE: it asks you questions it might not do anything with, but you feel better for having answered them (i.e. "therapy.")

That brings to mind--is there anything similar to a web therapy service yet? I imagine you could train a Jabberwacky bot to do it.


I think this is awesome but I'm not sure of how the majority would feel about it, I'm afraid some will just think this is a waste of time. Given the number of comments here I think I'm right...


Next craze in web forms I want to see is the emotional state. This could be the next captcha.

Please don't overload the forms of your web apps. Add only the fields that match to the context.


Similar thing from Xobni: http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/2008/01/three-clever-xobni-f...

I imitated it and the feedback from it is the source of daily amusement for me.


Don't know about wufoo, but as nice as that blog looks, it does freeze my browser (iceweasel) when I scroll the page. Even after it's loaded completely. With opera it's even worse - it's getting so slow that the side is nearly impossible to browse.


Yes, go to admit that the UI of Wufoo and their forms is very cool thats the main reason, I choose to use this service, but I wish they had send-to-email option for their forms.


They do! Idk if its free though, premium has it though.


Nothing like a rave review to help smooth over.. anything.




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