Asking for more than the task needs
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Rule · bucket: judgment · severity: warning · detector: none · since: v0.17.0
Section: Things to avoid
Group: Forms

Forbidden:
  A sign-up that asks for a phone number, company size, job title and "how did you hear about us" before the person can try anything

Instead:
  Ask for what this step needs to work. Every other field is optional and says so, or it moves to the moment it becomes useful.

Each field is a question someone has to answer and a reason to leave. The ones the product does not need yet are also the ones people fill with nonsense, so the data they were meant to collect is worse than none.