User experience: Login is the wrong word to use

Excellent site interaction experience for the details of the processing is very good, such as we are often seen in some websites of some text, with time changes, these words have also undergone a great change, this is the site interactive experience improvement.

The use of the word login is wrong.
Login is not an action, it's like "shoe" is not an action. He is a noun that means the login Interface (login interface).

It is also suggested that the correct usage should be sign in, and think carefully about it indeed. In the early web site to see the most is login and register, and occasionally see the Chinese web site has a graphics decoration on login and register. Probably 04 I first found Netvibes login registration is sign in and sign up, at that time very puzzled, anyway as if the meaning is similar. Later gradually in English products are rarely the shadow of login, it seems that with the promotion of excellent designers have a great relationship.

This problem does not seem obvious in Chinese products, and Chinese is not so complicated descriptive syntax. To put it another way, Login, logon is primarily for the operating system, while Sign in and Sign on are primarily for application systems. Interestingly, in the search of knowledge and questions, you can find a lot of similar consultation "sign and login differences", it seems that Chinese netizens still look good.

Of course, the most popular registration in the application system now is create account. Because all interactions are based on tasks, the user does not want to interact with the interface object, but to do what they want to do. The reason is such as write "register" let the user point, but in fact registration is "create an account", so it is not as direct "create account" to clear directly.

For example, a traditional login form will have a "forgotten password"? function But webmasters quickly discovered that users are often more than likely to forget passwords, and may also be affected by forgetting their username, protecting their mailboxes, passwords, or other more bizarre issues. So the "forgotten password" was enhanced accordingly? "Features, but careful designers will find that" forgotten password "several words have been difficult to generalize such complex functional requirements. For example, has a login form been summed up as "Unable to access your account?" ”

Finally, early web sites and software help are used to the FAQ, can you see it now? It should help. Because the FAQ is just a thing, people help is an action.