Say No to Placeholder Text

We spend a good part of our days filling out screen-based forms. Some forms are easy to fill out because a thoughtful designer has taken best practices into account. Some forms are painful because they create confusion over what's expected. They're ambiguous or they require too much typing. Here's a snippet of wisdom that I wanted to save for later use: ditch the placeholder text. It's extremely common to see this UI approach in form design, but there are good reasons not too. Here they are.

See the original article from whence I pinched this.