[Sigia-l] "help text" in input fields - bad?
Jayson Elliot <[email protected]>
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Does anyone have research to point to regarding the practice of placing instructional text in a field that is meant for user input? For example, on a site like http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ you see "Google custom search" inside the search field; or http://www.adobe.com/ writes "Search Adobe.com" inside theirs. I have read articles stating that this can depress overall usage of an input field, as some users become "blind" to the field if it is not empty, but can't find any now that I need them. Also, what about the use of colored input fields? Do non-white text boxes perform less well than standard white HTML input fields? ------------ IA Summit 2010 April 7-11, 2010 Hyatt Regency, Phoenix, AZ http://iasummit.org/2010/ ----- When replying, please *trim your post* as much as possible. *Plain text, please; NO Attachments Searchable Archive at http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/ ________________________________________ Sigia-l mailing list -- post to: [email protected] Changes to subscription: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l