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Validating fields as users typed cut submission errors by half in the analytics. In 22 recorded sessions it also made nine people stop typing mid-word. The fix was not more validation but later validation.
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Developer Tools10 min read
An audit of every colour token in a three-year-old design system, cross-referenced against what shipped. 193 tokens were unused, misused or duplicates within two shades of one another. Deleting them made dark mode possible.
Software7 min read
A five-step product tour had a 12% completion rate. Replacing it with an empty state that offered one real action doubled week-one activation. The screen a new account sees first was doing the tour's job better than the tour.
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We audited 34 dialogs across one product. In 21 of them, closing the dialog dropped keyboard focus to the top of the page. Fixing focus return took two days and removed the single most common complaint from keyboard users.
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