Jonathan Inch
Jonathan Inch
It's really frustrating that there is no workable address capture when you don't know where the user lives in the world. It's all well and good offering a postcode lookup...
Error messages for bank details include "Enter a valid sort code like 309430" etc, but [the standards for error messages](https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/error-message/) says don't use "‘valid’ and ‘invalid’ because they do not...
Genuine question - do many people still refer to 'telephones' as opposed to just 'phones'? Feels a bit old fashioned to be asking for the former to me.
> Google Trends seems to show 'phone' being the main term: >  Cheers Joe - hadn't thought about trying GT. Maybe worth considering...
> It'd _probably_ make sense to keep this in sync with the [content style guide](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/style-guide/a-to-z-of-gov-uk-style#telephone-numbers) which currently uses 'telephone number'? Interesting that a quick search on GOV.UK shows nearly 13k...
> Google ngram viewer searches books. It shows 'phone' dominant in US books but subdominant in UK books (although reaching parity). I'm glad this topic came up here because we...
 Searching 'phone' v 'telephone' but looking beyond 2000 (2008 seems to be as far as it will go), Google Books Ngram Viewer shows a big divergence from 2001 or...
Hi all - is there any reason we don't have hint text (and a more specific error message) for postcodes? With email and phone numbers we are giving examples in...
What is the recommendation for capturing addresses which may or may not be non-UK (e.g. if we ask for a contact address and there's no guarantee it will be in...
> If you look at https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/addresses/ > you'll see some guidance such as "Address lookups generally only work for UK addresses. Use a manual option such as multiple text inputs...