We’re happy to announce Adam Silver’s new book Form Design Patterns. In this excerpt from the book, Adam takes a look at the foundational qualities of a well-designed form and how to think about them. You can also get the book right away → Let’s start with a registration form. Most companies want long-term relationships with their users. To do that they need users to sign up. And to do that, they
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