User Experience Design: about the design of the password entered in the website

Article Description: The thing about entering a password when registering.

On the micro-blog to see and Dish head on Taobao 2012 of the eggs, curious to try. first of all the eggs are indeed there, but also find this very interesting and worthwhile to think about the problem. PS. This blog is based solely on the interest in the problem itself. You know.

Why do you only lose your password once?

It is true that many foreign websites have done so. The goal is to reduce the registration cost, optimize the user experience, can reduce the user clicks and enter the cost ( really?). The most important thing is that they must have enough data to prove that their audience does not need to confirm the password again, or I will not believe who will make the decision on the thigh.

Because these users:

1. Most of the user input passwords will not be too complex, such as uppercase and lowercase + digital + symbol mixed with the abnormal password.

2. Most users use passwords that are commonly used and can be entered correctly even with closed eyes.

3. Most users are very confident and secure, otherwise they may have to press N under backspace delete the first input password and then carefully input again, this is a tangled interaction risk can not be completely circumvented.

If you do meet the above ideal conditions, so take the annoying password to confirm the form, the entire registration process only to enter the necessary fields (email) and a password can be. Roughly as follows:

Of course, there will be a lot of variants, such as sending a message does not contain password information, click on the confirmation link to become registered user. It is possible to find the password wrong the next time you log in, and then go back to the process of finding the password . To be honest, if it does happen, I believe the process is not pleasant.

Some "unreliable" data.

Here's my point, I prefer to keep the confirmation form . Of course you have to use the data to say something, although the data may not be very reliable, because it is the 08 data and is second-hand.

A foreign blogger Smashing magazine has published two discussions and data on Web registration Form design [part1][part2][translations]. Here I'll just excerpt one of the charts.

The chart shows that most users still need to confirm the form. Although the user samples are foreign users, but the domestic Internet products after the study of Facebook, Dropbox, Yammer can calm down the self negative , really necessary to learn them?

Overthrow?

When it comes to self-denial , I'm starting to do it now. Although I have expressed my inclination, there are several negative reasons for this.

1. The user does not care the wrong password.

2. Most of these sites have strong social elements that, driven by this element, require visitors (who are unable to access any Web resources) to be the quickest to join the site and access private content.

Of course, the above two points are hypothetical.

Continue to assume?

Back to the original question, if you just want to condense the input password interaction into one time. I also made the following assumptions

1. Read at the edge of the losing side

2. With OpenID, such as Tencent to open the user resources, perhaps enter QQ number and login password on the line, the password will not lose the wrong?

3. Welcome to add ...

It looks beautiful. "Pre-registration"

I understand the pre-registration: The registration process will be disassembled, with a minimalist registration form to allow users to complete the pre-registration (with only one email field, even passwords are not, yes), and then the cumbersome follow-up registration fields (including passwords) through a variety of guidance means to allow users to complete the complete registration process. Users can not feel the cumbersome registration, but also increased interest and business penetration.

Before I saw the glorious old wet expressed his praise for minimalist registration design. Later see Hozin old wet systematic analysis of the pre-registration, and use the word Golden key to praise this effort. All of the above two articles are worth a look at the blog.

There are also sites in the country to do so bravely. Like Area 42. The registration button on the website has only one email form, very simple.

But Hozin old wet and then wrote a blog to discuss the 42 district, which has such a sentence.

Well ... it's a really annoying user feedback, isn't it?