Form Design And The Fallacy Of The Required FieldI was on a mailing list today and this came across: “Use red asterisks — they’re the standard for showing required fields.” Standards are wonderful; but if I asked my mom what is the international symbol for a required field, she would look at me like I was on drugs (not much different than today, but still). This was something even the great Jared Spool mentioned as gospel at an event and showed
