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Miguel Arroz

This is why the design trend of using placeholders as field labels is a terrible idea. This dialog showed up like this when I used the “Add Bookmark…” in Safari. What do you think the selected field is for? The bookmarked URL, right?
30 Apr 2023 at 18:49 | Open on mastodon.social
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Miguel Arroz

Well, wrong. Here’s how it looks empty. But because I was bookmarking a PDF, Safari couldn’t extract the title and used the URL as title instead. And the “Description” field below made me believe THAT would be the field with the title that shows in the bookmarks menu.
30 Apr 2023 at 18:50 | Open on mastodon.social
Miguel Arroz

All this for what? Saving the space of the labels in a dialog with 3 controls, plus the action buttons, that will be presented on a device with a large screen? The trade off is just wrong. Always show the field labels. Never use placeholders as labels.

30 Apr 2023 at 18:52 | Open on mastodon.social
chris

@arroz
I think I got your story but your writeup is confusing af

1 May 2023 at 12:47 | Open on social.inzeiten.de
Dr Brian of London (Dev)🖥

@arroz I quite like this which minimizes the label into the form element.
1 May 2023 at 13:07 | Open on podcastindex.social
Jibai

@arroz yikes. Bad UI all along the way leading to bad UX 😬
It was really complicated to display the 3 fields and the 3 labels I guess.

2 May 2023 at 2:18 | Open on mastodon.social
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