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Client: Please remove the address inputs from the inquiry form. Our marketing strategist said that more people will fill out the form if there are less input fields.

Me: But you are required by law to include the address in the generated inquiry PDFs!

Client: Can you remove the fields and still include the address in the PDF somehow?

Me: No. How would the website know the users address without asking for it.

Client: Okay. Wait! Can we change the form to just one large input where the user has to enter everything at once? That is even less inputs so more users would do it, right?

Me:...

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the client is always stupid
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  • 1
    6y
    Next is either prefill fields based on an IP lookup (lots of edge cases) or auto fill fields as they're typed in (street name abc -> must be in one of city x, y or z) which means a dataset lookup...
  • 24
    6y
    suggest to make the website without any hyperlinks or buttons so the user does not have to click anywhere, its like a handsfree website
  • 9
    6y
    how to design user friendly input forms
    https://uxplanet.org/designing-more...
  • 1
    6y
    Suggest having no form at all - much easier for the user then! Or perhaps no website at all.
  • 1
    6y
    Hahahaha. I’m so sorry.
  • 0
    6y
    Maybe just pray that Elon Musk’s neurallink can someday allow people to just think it and have the data transferred into the system.
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