You and your ideas are welcome here. When you join TED, you can leave comments, save talks to watch later, track TED-Ed lessons and generally be in good company
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ted
City, airport, hotel name
Why
Defining categories helps reduce the choice range, enabling users to focus on the possibilities, and guiding them on the best way to use the field.
What’s on your mind, Vasilis?
Why
You don’t steer thoughts towards something that’s happening outside, but towards something that is happening in users’ own heads.
Save recipes across devices, write reviews, and share your own photos!
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food
Track the progress of a process
Why
Even if registration is required, give your users good reasons to invest the next two minutes of their lives in registering on your product.
Incorrect email or password. All passwords must be at least 6 characters.
Why
Don’t just tell the user the password is wrong – say why (if there is a reason)
Do you want to share with us other cool accessories that we haven’t thought about?
Why
Connect the sentence to the subject matter of the site
Your archives are empty. Boards you don’t use go here until you need them again.
Why
Create empty states to show exactly in new users how your system works, and how they can make the best out of it.
Sign up now and every week you’ll get: Exclusive interviews with leading couples counselors
Why?
Offer benefits that users can immediately understand
Success! WordPress has been installed. Were you expecting more steps? Sorry to disappoint.
Why?
The message is funny, but also says that they kept their promise for a simple, intuitive platform and that getting their product was an excellent choice that made your life much easier.
The city is unknown. Please enter a valid city.
Why
Don’t make the user guess why the error occurred. Use a validation text to tell the user what went and why it went wrong
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