Form best practise in action
Another day another mission to make forms simple.
As if by magic I have uncovered a very good example of the type of recommendations we have been making for some recent clients when it comes to helping users fill in forms by improving basic usability design.
Simply easy
It’s the way you do it
Yahoo has a great little sign up form that mixes hand-holding and error messaging brilliantly. There are nice confirmation checks for each field, simple explanations for the more complex entries, which fade in and out unobtrusively, excellent error handling, all of which leaves you feeling satisfied and ready to start using Yahoo.
One major failure
However even the great and the good have an Achilles heal and Yahoo’s is it’s capture anti-bot thing. Most of us hate these stupid little form fields where you have to squint at a bunch of unreadable text and type it in to prove you are not a machine.
Yahoo’s is particularly hard to read, there is no audio version and quite frankly it lets down an otherwise brilliant form.
See for yourself
So rather than doing it yourself, we have created a short video of the form, and if you want to know more about form design best practice then drop us an email hello@WeAreLondon.com
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