Shantanu Oak - May 14th, 2008

11:20 am - Usability 3.0

This is about Nirav Mehta's post on usability found here...
http://www.mehtanirav.com/2008/04/17/impressive-usability-on-the-login-page/
and the comment by Naveen, found here...
http://www.creanology.org/2008/04/usability-review/

I do not agree with either of these great men, Nirav and Naveen.
1) I will like to remove the "No, I'm a new user" link. When I want to login, I simply want to type in my username and password and hit enter! When I want to register, I look for big "Register" or "Sign Up" button with mouseover effect. As you can see, 'Sign Up' and 'Sign In' links are there at the top! Therefore it would be best to remove the 'sign up' option from 'Sign in' page.
2) I do not like the idea of using E-mail address as login. I want to use 'username' as login credential and NOT an e-mail that may change.
3) I will like the username, password input boxes integrated somewhere on the home page, instead of having a separate page for it. If space is an issue, create a mouseover/ onclick drop down box for 'Sign In' link at the top right.

You have to understand how the new users come to site, interact and judge/trust site. The users like me register with several sites before settling down with one or two really useful sites those I will like to use often. So all I look for is a quick way to login or register. The best would have been integrating with facebook or drupal or open ID so that there is no need to login at all or atleast I can use the same username and password evreywhere!