Creating More Inclusive and Culturally Sensitive Forms
The First and Last Name convention in form fields may fit the majority of cultural and personal expectations for those in the United States, but expand your audience to those born or with family roots in other parts of the world and multicultural sensitivity comes into play. We can accommodate everyone with a little foresight and simple adjustments.
10 Useful JavaScript & CSS Tools to Enhance Your Forms
Forms are an essential part of just about every website – yet, we don’t always pay too much attention to their finer details. There are a number of things that…
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10 Useful JavaScript & CSS Tools to Enhance Your Forms
Forms are an essential part of just about every website – yet, we don’t always pay too much attention to their finer details. There are a number of things that…
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Tiny Copy, Big Impact: How Microcopy Helps Your Users and Helps Your Brand
Small things can make a big difference, and this is especially true in web content. The shortest of phrases and even single words—coupled with how they are designed and where they are or are not placed on a page—can affect a user’s experience. This is where microcopy comes in. These small snippets of text can help guide users through a process, such as completing a form or placing an order. But, so often, this important content is an afterthought.
Tiny Copy, Big Impact: How Microcopy Helps Your Users and Helps Your Brand
Small things can make a big difference, and this is especially true in web content. The shortest of phrases and even single words—coupled with how they are designed and where they are or are not placed on a page—can affect a user’s experience. This is where microcopy comes in. These small snippets of text can help guide users through a process, such as completing a form or placing an order. But, so often, this important content is an afterthought.
Designing The Perfect Accordion
Design patterns. An almost mythical phrase that often inspires either awe or resentment. As designers, we tend to think of design patterns as generic off-the-shelf solutions that can be applied to various contexts almost mechanically, often without proper consideration. Navigation? Off-canvas! Deals of the day? Carousel! You get the idea.
Sometimes we use these patterns without even thinking about them, and there is a good reason for it: Coming up with a brand new solution every time we encounter an interface problem is time-consuming and risky, because we just don’t know how much time will be needed to implement a new solution and whether it will gracefully succeed or miserably fail in usability tests.
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