PSA: placeholder is not a label. it disappear when people…
Mariana Costa@mari_costa
PSA: placeholder is not a label. it disappear when people start typing and then they dont remember what the field was for. use a real label element. this message is sponsored by the 6 usability tests where I watched this happen
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Mariana Costa
Product designer in São Paulo, working on e-commerce checkout. I like design systems, accessibility and talk with real users. Figma all day, but I still write some CSS when nobody is watching.
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Sign in to commentSiobhan O'Rourke@siobhan_tests
And placeholder grey usually fails contrast too. Two problems for the price of one.