Making User Login More Usable
In the advent of federated login and OpenID, not to mention the release of the usability study conducted by Yahoo on OpenID, it is a relief to stumble upon usability guidelines for enhancing the user login experience.
Gary Barber authored 11 guidelines on how to improve the user experience of login. Usability guidelines and standards make all our lives easier as these already provide how-tos and clearer directions on how to make things easier for the users.
Although user login may well be considered as just one of the many functions in a web site or a mobile service, it is the most crucial part of amost community-based and social networking services (SNS) that require user login and authentication in order to fully maximize features of a service. Read more