WHY THE ‘NONE OF THE ABOVE' CHECKBOX PATTERN WORRIES ME

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

A gov.uk service redesigned a question about disabilities, merging two questions into one with checkboxes. While this tripled condition selections, concerns arose over increased effort, harder navigation, broken conventions, and reliance on verbose error messages without JavaScript. Simpler iterations, like rewording the original question, might avoid these risks while maintaining usability.