Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Website forms
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2012–2024), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Website forms, 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
- Form says a field is invalid without saying why, forcing workarounds2024-03-25
- Autofill fails or fills wrong data on many sites' checkout forms2024-01-16
- Checkout forces needless fields like address line 2, preformatted phone inputs, and mandatory account creation2023-09-12
- Labels look identical to entered text, so users can't tell they're empty prompts2013-02-04
- Declining an offered add-on while still completing purchase seems impossible, forcing acceptance or abandonment2012-05-11