Adam Silver

In 2016 I worked at the Department for Work and Pensions.

2 weeks ago I sent an email to 3,855 subscribers using ConvertKit.

In 2009 I prototyped a form that disabled the submit button until all the answers were valid.

Sticky menus (menus that stick to the edge of the viewport) are used to make them easy to access on long pages.

A page title or document title describes a web page.

In 2021 I worked on a service that allows teacher training providers to set up interviews with trainees.

I’ve been designing forms for over 20 years now, and I’ve tested many of them for large organisations like Boots, Just Eat and GOV.UK.

Autofill (or autocomplete) attributes tell browsers to automatically fill out an answer for the user if the user has stored that information in the browser.

A few notes from Jared Spool’s twitter thread on A/B testing.

I work on a service that lets users manage teacher training applications.

I used to be a frontend developer.

Netflix’s user interface with bidirectional scrolling Sites like Netflix organise programs into rows by category which can be horizontally scrolled into view.

After tweeting about using a page instead of a modal dialog, Chris Cheshire asked what should happen if the user presses back after deleting a customer’s account.

Co-written with Amy Hupe 🌟.

HEY.com is a new email service by Basecamp.

While most fields are made up of just one input, like an email address, some fields (that are essentially one value) could be split into multiple inputs, like a sort code.

Rails has a nice section on naming routes and actions.

Alistair Laing did a show and tell a few weeks back on the awesome cookie banner work he did for the Find postgraduate teacher training service.

Awesome tips from Julie Zhuo’s article, managing remotely: Cancel as many meetings as you can.

Bad communication creates more work and more stress.

There’s been some comments about this on Twitter.

This is an excerpt from my book, Form Design Patterns.

Webinar, course update, bullet journaling, job update, Veganuary and Red January.

Being a designer is a constant balancing act.

There’s been some comments about this on Twitter.

Button placement on forms is often ignored or prioritised based on what looks good.

It’s been ages since I wrote one of these.

In 2006 I coded up my very first tooltip.

Hi there.

I haven’t written weeknotes in a little while because I don’t always have loads to say.

The concept of graceful degradation predates the web.

Web components are becoming increasingly popular within the web community.

Caseworking meetup, agile programming for families, design system humble brag, article updates and soft skills.

Originally published on CSS-Tricks.

Getting agreement on big decisions, good reception for my new article, how making things open made things better (for me), and pair writing a new article.

Concon8, prototype versioning, perseverance and article updates.

Versioning prototypes, design system bits and article updates.

Recreated the GOV.UK Design System’s form components in Angular As I’ve been writing about in past weeknotes, this work is all done.

Things that went well I wrote about the benefits of semantic HTML and ARIA In last week’s weeknotes I said I’d like to write about the benefits of semantic HTML and ARIA one day.

Finished Insanity Max 30 After a very stressful day on Tuesday I woke up early on the Wednesday feeling like shit.

Insanity Max 30—week 7 Definitely feeling fitter and with less wobbly bits.

Insanity Max 30—week 6 The first week of month two was hell.

Insanity Max 30—week 5 The first month of this program was impossible.

A disproportionate amount of time is spent designing complex interactions that hide content at the cost of usability.

Insanity Max 30—first month done Let’s start with the easy one.

I found finishing last week’s weeknotes really fun.

I’ve decided to give weeknotes a go.

The first rule of form design is to only ask for information you actually need to give users a good experience.

This is an excerpt from Form Design Patterns.

Some people think progressive enhancement is more work and means designing for the least capable browser—at the cost of making better experiences for the latest browsers.