Unconventional controls
=======================

Rule · bucket: judgment · severity: note · detector: none · since: v0.1.0
Section: Things to avoid
Group: States and interaction

Forbidden:
  A bespoke form field, checkbox or select that looks and behaves unlike every other one the user has met

Instead:
  Conventional shapes: inputs are rectangles with the label above, checkboxes are squares with a tick, radios are circles, links are underlined.

People arrive with a mental model built from every other product they use (Jakob's law). Matching it is free comprehension; departing from it charges the user to learn something that gains them nothing. Innovate on the product's actual purpose, not on its form fields.