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Emails were never intended as a form of chat type messaging. Remember that they are electronic versions of mail, so trying to modify them to be something they weren't designed for is a mistake.
As to the reasons why we write the subject line first:
The subject line is part of the header of an email (see the original RFC822 and the newer RFC5322), and ...
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Do not update what users enter when they're still typing. It fuddles up their ability to edit as they type, and it makes the field a moving target. If you were to type 25000 straight, no typo's, no backspacing, it might make sense to format it right when you're done. However, what happens when you enter a 0 between the 2 and the 5? Or when you hit backspace?
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Firstly, the thousands separator is not common among all regions of the world. When in doubt the recommended solution (SI/ISO 31-0 standard) is to use a non-breakable thin space as a separator.
You also have to take into account that not all countries group by thousands. From Wikipedia:
In China, comma and space are used to mark digit groups ...
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We had the same question and after a lot of heated discussion we decided to not format while the user was editing.
While the user type he can add grouping or decimal separators if he would like and as soon as he blurs we add them if the user didn't.
so the user can type
100000
100,000
100,000.00
100000.00
but as soon as he blurs we format it as
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I think all of these are quite functional, but there are pros and cons for each one:
1st: may need a lot of vertical space.
2nd: does not consume any additional space at all, but will disappear once user enters this field. It's quite popular though, and not a bad practice.
3rd: again, should the example text be longer, it may force you to make the left ...
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As a reader, I want to know "Why are you sending me this email?" so I know whether it is worth my while reading it now, instead of doing all those other important things on my to-do list.
As a reader, I expect the writer to know why they are sending me the email, and more to the point, I hope they will know why they are sending me the email before they ...
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This may be similar to the question Why don't ATMs give you cash before your card?:
Users follow the tasks in sequence, but regard the task as completed once they have achieved their goal. Subsidiary steps are easy to abandon at this point.
The goal of writing an email is conveying information. Once the message body is complete that goal is supposedly ...
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Be careful that this notation is not common for all users.
Simplified table of numbers formatting :
1000000 < nobody that cares about readability
1 000 000 < Sweden, France
1,000,000 < UE
1.000.000 < Germany
Is it going to be an amount of money ? Because if its so I would recommend you to input right to left (have a look to currency ...
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Client-side validation can be helpful, but you need to be very careful how you implement it; it's easy to make it unhelpful to the user.
For example, if you silently ignore non-numeric characters, then a user quickly typing '12.34' might not realise that the field has ignored their decimal point and accepted the text as '1234'.
Another example; if you ...
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Go with the 2nd option. It is a standard practice followed by many websites. It allows for showing examples in-context which is better than giving directions for the user to follow. eg: Enter email below,example: amdin@user.gov
Make the text visibly lighter (grey) than the default color.
Optional: Give some added visual que like changing the ...
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Even more than just applying formatting during input doing anything to actively change the input during an edit is extremely user hostile.
ex Your system limit is 1,000,000 and your user attempts to change a value from 230,015 to 330,015; begining by typing a 3 with the intend of following up with a delete to remove the 2. With an immediate force value to ...
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I'd like to approach this question from a bit of a different perspective than that of other answers.
What's In An Order
The essential question posed is questioning the philosophy and methodology of ordering form fields.
On the one hand, one might wish to order them in the order that the author would be expected to write them. This is a perfectly sensible ...
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It's simple information hierarchy. Just as a paper has the author and title at the top, so does email.
Now, one could argue that that is only important for the reader, not the author. And I think that's a valid argument. That said, when we read emails, they have a particular hierarchy and an equally valid argument is that the template used to create the ...
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There was a study done by UX matters. They use eye-tracking and field association in their study.
From the results of our second test, we knew that the nearer a label
is to its input field, the more quickly users could move from the
label to the input field. So, we were not surprised when we noticed
that most of the fixations were right on the ...
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I am not sure if the question is specific or general but in this very peculiar case I would not recommend to use a description at all.
You want the user to put his email address. If you consider she can use this address for any reason in your application, then she knows what a email address looks like.
You want to show an example in case the email is ...
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I don't know the answer to your first general question, is it a technical concern?
Regarding 1: Since it's an either/or option you shouldn't present UI elements for both text and image selection at once. Instead use some button in each cell that indicates "insertion", like so:
and then show a popup menu action sheet with options for text, camera or camera ...
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Like @Bart, I thought to the decimal separator : “,” or “.”
It may be a good idea to accept the signs “+” and “−”, and “-” of course [“−” is a “minus” sign, and “-” is a hyphen].
The same goes for the space, and some of its variants : non-breaking space, thin space… When I want to transfer 1 million dollars, I type “1 000 000”.
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