Unconventional controls
- 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.
What this rule looks like
Why this rule
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.
- Kind
- Rule
- Section
- Things to avoid
- Group
- States and interaction
- Bucket
- judgment
- Severity
- note
- Since
- v0.1.0