December 2011
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Viseca contact form #2: How to design a birthday...
My last blog post was about the yellow checkbox in this contact form by the Swiss credit card company Viseca, but wait: there’s more. The next hurdle in contacting them is a birthday form field. First of all I’m confused that they need my birthday date for a simple inquiry, but that’s another story.
1. On a Mac with Firefox the form-field is not long enough to show a full birthday date like...
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Viseca contact form #1: A yellow checkbox?
When I first saw this contact form by the Swiss credit card company Viseca, I thought “A yellow checkbox? What is that supposed to mean?” Then I figured out that this possibly means it is selected. A selected checkbox should look like a checkbox and not like a yellow box. This is a well-known convention across the web.
When there are good conventions, don’t be creative and...