From Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox):
- Don’t make fields mandatory unless they truly are.
- Support autofill to the max by avoiding unusual field labels (just use Name, Address, etc.).
- Set the keyboard focus to the first field when the form is displayed. This saves a click.
emphasis mine
I’ve got a place in my heart for usability curmudgeon Jakob Nielsen, but “to the max?” Yikes.
Usability advice for 2005… in hammer pants. Badical.
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This is the first of a series of posts with the various mottos I use to help me refactor my thoughts.
Today’s oblique strategy is…
Add or remove a dimension
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