If you travel as a family or group, adding more people is an option, which saves plenty of time. You don’t have to re-enter all travel information for each person when you all travel on the same means of transportation. The people who designed this form consciously considered use cases.

Those who want to can use a calendar to select their date of birth, but by default you type it into a separate 3-segment form field, which makes sense. Also, it allows you to choose male, female, and other as options for sex. Malaysia’s form only contains 2 options.

Now, this is a very different experience: Singapore’s Arrival Card form is straightforward. It doesn’t use a one-thing-per-page structure, but it still has clear labels and well-designed form fields. The ‘autofill with passport’ option opens the camera and neatly extracts all information. 👏🏻

Yet another government form that needs fixing: Applying for a Malaysia digital arrival card makes the user navigate another calendar to enter the date of birth. Also, the form doesn’t allow copy-pasting, making it difficult for users with dyslexia or dyscalculia.

One of my favourites of recent years is ‘BZSt IBAN+‘. That are 2 acronyms in a row in an app’s name. The literal translation would be: ‘Federal Tax Office International Bank Account Number plus’. 😞 A plain-language name following the guidance would be ‘Share bank details with the tax office’.

It builds on the many good and bad practices I have seen over the past 10 years. I also got to list some good and bad examples. The guidance also incorporates tips from guides, workshops and talks from @rebekahbarry.bsky.social, @tomhewitson.bsky.social, and @harrytrimble.bsky.social.

Ha, I took a similar photo in Italy some weeks ago. This is how you offend some cultures.

Shoutout to @simonecarrier.bsky.social from @digital-agentur.de for joining me on stage for the second talk at @sdingov.bsky.social. It was great to have a participant’s view on what I said in my talk.

“Given the size of our problems, our imagination space has become very small.” — @indyjohar.bsky.social at Camden Climate Inspire Festival

Ok! Wieder was gelernt. Ich blogge seit 2006, bin aber wohl nicht in der richtigen Ecke der Bloggerszene.

›Verbloggt‹? Ist das ein Wort? Ist mir in den letzten 25 Jahren nicht begegnet.