Timeline for Name on card, or Card number first?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 10:51 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 1, 2016 at 22:17 | comment | added | Bill Dagg | Although I agree with your conclusion, I disagree with your statement that having to fill in the name makes users stop and think "Do I really need to complete the name field"? They wouldn't stop and think about that any more than they would the credit card number. Option 1 does make them act unnecessarily; it doesn't make them think unnecessarily. | |
| May 11, 2016 at 16:35 | comment | added | DasBeasto | @dennislees Ah thats a good point it very well may be! Either way as Michael said there are ways around it, its just somethin OP should consider | |
| May 11, 2016 at 15:47 | comment | added | dennislees | @DasBeasto I've asked the OP to confirm (should have asked first), but I took his description of a "credit card form at my work when adding a new card" to mean that this is an internal tool, not something that's public facing, and therefore doesn't really need to designed for all eventualities. | |
| May 11, 2016 at 15:19 | comment | added | user | @DasBeasto That's easy to work around by doing graceful degradation using Javascript. Don't have the field initially hidden and show it if needed; instead, have it initially visible, hide it immediately and then display it if needed. That way, if the user has Javascript disabled, the field remains visible (even if not strictly needed) instead of not becoming visible if needed. Much better degredation behavior, at a slight risk of flicker immediately when the form loads. This works even better in combination with Falco's suggested approach. | |
| May 11, 2016 at 13:25 | comment | added | DasBeasto | One concern though is that this is a money handling form, so likely an important staple to the site. If the user has Javascript disabled they could no longer use it (correctly). Although this is an admittedly small chance it is still a risk to consider. | |
| May 11, 2016 at 2:00 | history | answered | dennislees | CC BY-SA 3.0 |