19. November 2009

Required Fields

Das hier ist ebenfalls ein recht netter Artikel: Form Design And The Fallacy Of The Required Field.

Form fields are one of those things that users expect to fill out every single field, because they don’t want to have to figure out error messages when they are wrong. Because they have been trained that most web forms are ineffective, they do as much work as possible or walk away, leaving either a frustrated user, a lost sale, or both.

Ja, ja - immer diese Formulare. Sorgenkind oder Herausforderung? Wie auch immer. Der Beitrag ist ganz gut.