Comments on: 7 Form Tactics That Drive Users Crazy

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:44:30 +0000

Great article, I can especially relate to the required characteristics of passwords, that one drives me absolutely nuts. I think strength indicators are much more appropriate. Good list.

By: Seba

Seba — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:03:09 +0000

Great article!

I hate to re-enter passwords because it must have numbers.

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By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:44:46 +0000

Great Article

By: James

James — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:49:43 +0000

Great article (and a great form for comments too!)

I find that a simple, two or three field form is usually all that’s required, no sense in making users jump through hoops.

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By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:19:33 +0000

Thanks for this one, so many forms are self-defeating in that they ostensibly encourage visitors to communicate with a site while at the same time making it difficult to do so.

Forms represent web content as much as a blog post or an article does, and like all content they function best when made with the user in mind. Focus on enabling the user to achieve their objective with the minimum possible effort, the fewest possible fields and the maximum opportunity for the user to tell you what they need and want, then you’ll have a tool that encourages communication rather than discourages it, and your measurable action stats will go up too.

Thanks,
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Boston SEO

By: Engineer

Engineer — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:42:09 +0000

Bad form design (and many related issues) stem from the personality traits of the people who make them. If you look at psychometric analysis of the traits of programmers, web engineers etc, you will find they are a long way distant from those of people in ‘caring’ occupations. If you want to fix the problem, you need a supervisor of the right personality to check the coders work.

By: Big Robby

Big Robby — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:31:07 +0000

No one should be allowed to run a website without reading this article. The Internet would be a much better (and less annoying) place!

Cheers to Dan. Nuff Said

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:45:25 +0000

I would add one more that absolutely drives up the wall:

CAPTCHA or verification codes that are unreadable.

They put the characters so close together you can’t distinguish one from another, they put them on curves, bold them and make them so black one character merges with another, then they put strike-throughs through them, and just to make it even harder they put them on cluttered backgrounds that also merge with the type.

Then they have the call to say this is to make sure you are human.

Most humans wouldn’t be able to read some of them. It would take a computer to decipher the mess some of these verification systems use.