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Form design
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2010–2019), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Form design, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Submit button looks disabled and user can't find how to get a public link2019-07-18
- Placeholder-only labels and red-border-only errors hide what fields and errors mean2014-01-15
- Hover-only help tips are invisible or unusable on touchscreen devices2011-07-23
- Hint text disappears on focus, so users tabbing through forms lose the label before reaching the next field2011-02-08
- Users press cancel or no by habit and end up doing the opposite of what they intended2010-10-09