For the reasons cited above, I think we shouldn’t use placeholder text for any field, except when we’re extremely short on space *and* text is vital to understand the field. The former is never the case in a scrollable dialog like this one: we can use a label and/or a caption instead.
I doubt any of those placeholders improve understanding except for “At least 8 characters”. That should be a caption below the field instead (with the benefit that it could turn the error color if you unfocused the field non-empty without satisfying the requirement). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntuone-credentials in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1582309 Title: Example e-mail address is pointless Status in ubuntuone-credentials package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: Ubuntu 15.04 r323 0. Remove your Ubuntu One account if you have one set up already. 1. In System Settings, choose “Accounts” > “Ubuntu One”. What you see: A dialog with an e-mail address field containing placeholder text: “example: [email protected]” What you should see: No such placeholder text. Placeholder text is a bad idea in general, because it’s easily confused with actual field contents, because you can’t check it once you’ve entered anything, and because it can make the field look disabled. <https://www.nngroup.com/articles/form-design-placeholders/> <http://baymard.com/blog/mobile-forms-avoid-inline-labels> And this placeholder text is particularly bad because it doesn’t tell anyone anything they don’t already know (nobody will not understand what an “e-mail address” is, but become enlightened when they see “example: [email protected]”), and because it’s present only for the e-mail address field and not the password field, strengthening the impression that it is actual field contents. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntuone-credentials/+bug/1582309/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
