What's in a Name (Validation)?
summary
Forms reject real names by enforcing rules like „minimum three characters” and Latin-only letters and that breaks people whether or not systems can be changed. Valid names: Steve Smith, Lisa Baumgarden, Jennifer Miller contrasts with Invalid Names: Carly Ho, Kaspars Bērziņš, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Manuel Pellegrini Ripamonti? A registration form refuses two-letter surnames until fixed after a report, Twitter limits display names to 16 characters, some systems drop hyphens; practical fixes: one full-name field, ask how a name will be used, and disclose system limits.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:31Assumptions
- 2:46Assumptions are wrong
- 3:09Americanized names
- 4:49What is a name
- 5:13What can we do
- 5:37Why are you asking about names
- 6:09Do you really need to ID them by name
- 6:27Do you need to separate your first and last names
- 7:02Do you need one part of a name
- 7:27Let the user help you
- 8:13Dont assume
- 9:06User interface
- 9:59Limitations
- 10:51Your system cant handle it
- 11:35Admit your system limitations
- 12:01Outro
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