6 min
The input types nobody uses
A 60 KB JavaScript date picker, and a plain text input for the phone number. Exactly the wrong way round in both cases, and the most common configuration I see.
Forms
All writing →4 posts filed under Forms, newest first.
7 min
Constraint validation
I reviewed a 400-line validation module last month and about 380 lines of it were reimplementing things the browser has done natively since roughly 2011.
7 min
Error messages are copy
Somebody typed a phone number with spaces in it, was told "Invalid input" three times, and gave up. The cause was a string written by a developer at the moment they were least interested in writing.
7 min
GDPR is a design brief
I got 41 emails in one day asking whether I'd like to keep hearing from companies I have no memory of ever contacting, which tells you roughly how the last six months have gone.