Stop Enforcing Date Format! It’s 2023!
<p>Today I’ve stumbled upon a post by Mark Wyner, a very talented user experience expert.</p>
<p>As he writes:</p>
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<p>To support the idea he provides an illustration that looks like this:</p>
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<p>As you can see on the left, the required format of date is provided as a placeholder. Once you start to type the date, the hint dissapears.</p>
<p>On the right side you see an improved version where the date format requirement is provided above the input.</p>
<p>That way it doesn’t dissapear. He goes to outline a number of reasons why it’s better.</p>
<p>I agree 100% with him on this. To go further I’d put it under the input or in a separate line above because the main text may have different lengths (and directions) based on the language.</p>
<p>This is only an example just to show requirements should be visible whole time.</p>
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