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I’ve come across this a lot of time myself and it made me realise that there is a need to ‘think’ on this issue. To get to the point, just look at the image below and see what has been typed in the text-box.
I’m guessing, your answer probably might be ”yes.. il” or “yes.. ll” or ”yes..tl” or ”yes..H” and it keeps on going!
What I’m trying to point out is that, the text pointer there shades the text typed which created an usability issue. Usually, since the text-box may not be active at the time the user wants to type something, the user brings the pointer right where he wants to type and then click inside the text-box area. This usually leaves the ‘text pointer’ few chars away from the starting point and as the user types on, the characters itself got covered up as can be seen on the image above.
Now, the problem is, as we already know how we as a user acts, the user tends to forget what he’d just typed in a matter of few secs of interruption or being ‘away from the screen‘ and when he returns back to the screen, he looks at what he just typed and got confused himself wondering what is it.
To eliminate this ‘usability issue’, what we can do is hide the pointer. In the image above, we can clearly see what had been typed on the text box no matter how distracted we are!!
So, a simple ‘hide pointer‘ feature once the text box is active, would be a great user experience!
