I've been trying to increase my knowledge and ability with designing user interfaces better. I've been reading and watching learning materials by experts to try to build better interfaces. One of the things I've been trying to get better at is web form design. I want my forms to be clear, accessible, and understandable. There's one piece of advice that I've gotten that has left both me and some other users confused in pursuit of cleaner, slicker looking web apps. Form input placeholders Form input placeholders seem great in theory but they're confusing, inaccessible, and less clean in my opinion insert video by great web designer and author about cleaning up a form users can't see what they inserted data form validation hints are gone once text is inserted leaves fields looking pre-populated as optional, unimportant, not a mental TODO

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/form-design-placeholders/