Pattern #97: Bigger Form Fields Save Pattern Bookmark
Pattern Author:
Marcos Ciarrocchi
- Product & Growth Manager @ Yummly
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Bigger Form Fields Bigger Click Areas
The size of buttons, form fields and hit areas is increased to makem them more visible and easier to click on.
Leaks
Airbnb Switched To A Bigger Button After Running This Design Experiment
Here is a perfectly simple optimization of a "Get started" button on Airbnb's host signup landing page. Airbnb ran an experiment of a smaller vs larger button size. I know because I managed to capture two diverse screenshots with the same date stamp. :) More so, a few months later Airbnb rolled out the later button to 100% of their traffic - hinting at a successful experiment outcome. View Leak
Zalando Rejects A/B Tested Company Logos And A Smaller Add-To-Cart Button
Zalando (Germany) has been experimenting with at least two interesting cascade variations on their product page. Both of these variations seem to have been rejected which is consistent with other evidence in favor of larger buttons. View Leak
Netflix Designs Their Button A Little Too Big
Sooner or later design properties should reach optimums for their given contexts. That is, UI elements will become just right - not too big and not too small, or not too high and not to low, etc. In this leak, it seems that Netflix has approached such an optimum when they tested various button sizes on their landing page. Given that form elements and buttons should generally be bigger, it was inevitable for this new evidence to appear as an example of a button being simply too big - as seen in this beautiful experiment. :) View Leak
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