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Yes, I know we are use to with the few steps of sharing when it comes to share the links across our social network Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Digg etc.

Well, today when I was at Mashable I was surprised to see the new interface of sharing the link among the social media by just Dragging it and dropping it over hte Social Media Icons. It is easy and no need to click-n-click then selecting the social media (YouTube had that Click-Click Steps).

Although it looks good from visual perspective and the ease of use, however is there a way to share accross multiple social-media via one drag and drop, instead of multiple drags and drops. At the moment I don’t see that option, but I hope we going to have some kind of “Basket” or “Add-to-Social-Media Cart” icon very soon near every link.

Have you read the book name “Web Form Design” by Luke Wroblewski? If your answer is Yes then you must know there are Three known standards for placing the labels on the form. Left Align, Right Align and Top Align (from Field / Textbox). If your answer is in NO then fret not! Read the brief intro of it from Luke Wroblewski’s website http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?793 .

Again, see the screen-shot above from the Harvard Business Review’s Newsletter sign-up form (http://hbsp.ed4.net/prefcenter/signup.cfm). That’s an epic failure of the design. I see here that user will suffer the  “Puzzle Thinking Syndrome” for such a small task. Why not follow the tried and true standards while developing the web forms, and put the Homo-Sapiens at ease.

My humble 0.02 User Experience/User Interface Cents.