On the registration of the password that thing

See and Weitou broke the news on Taobao 2012 egg, curious to try. First, the egg is indeed there, but also found this very interesting and worth considering issues. ps. This blog is only in the interest of the problem itself. You know.

There are indeed many foreign websites have said so. The goal is to reduce registration costs, optimize user experience, and reduce the cost of user clicks and typing (is that really true?). Most importantly, I believe they must have enough data to prove that their audience users really do not need to confirm the password again, otherwise I will not believe who made the decision making the thigh.

Because these users:

1. Most of the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/18678.html "> The password entered by the user will not be too complicated, such as the combination of uppercase and lowercase letters + numbers + symbols perverted password.

2. Most users use the password is their common, even with eyes closed can enter the correct.

Most users are very confident and secure, or they may have to press N backspace to delete the first input password and then re-enter it again, this tangled interactive risk can not be completely circumvented.

If you really meet the above ideal conditions, so take annoying password confirmation form, the entire registration process only need 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 mail does not contain password information, click the confirm link to become Registered user. It is possible that the next time you log in to find the wrong password, and then go back to retrieve the password process. To be honest if it happened, I believe this process is not pleasant.

Here to elaborate my point of view, I prefer to keep the confirmation password form. Of course, what to say with data, although these data may not fly, because the data is 08 years and is still used.

A foreign blog Smashing Magazine has released two discussions and data on WEB registration form design [part1] [part2] [translation]. Here I directly extract one of the charts.

The chart shows that most users still need to confirm the form. Although the sample of users is a foreign user, but domestic Internet products after studying Facebook, Dropbox, Yammer can calm down self denial, is it really necessary to learn them?

Just said self-denial, I started to do so now. Although I have expressed my preference, there are several reasons for this.

1. The user does not care at all wrong password.

2. Most of these sites have strong social elements. Driven by this element, visitors (those who can not access any website resources) need to be able to access the site and access private content as quickly as possible.

Of course, the above two points are hypothetical.

Back to the original question, if only want to enter the password of the interaction concentrated to once. I also made the following assumptions

1 edge while reading

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

3. Welcome to add ...

I understand the pre-registration: disassembly of the registration process, with a minimal registration form for the user to complete the pre-registration (only one email field, or even passwords are not, yes), and then tedious follow-up registration fields (including passwords Through a variety of guiding means for users to complete a complete registration process. Users not only feel the tedious registration, but also increased the fun and business penetration.

Before seeing Glorious Old Wet expressed his compliments on Minimalist Registered Design. Later I saw hozin old wet systematic analysis of the pre-registration, and with the golden key to strongly praise this attempt. Both are noteworthy blog posts.

There are also domestic websites brave to do so. For example, 42 districts. Website registration button above only one Email form, very simple.

However, hozin old wet later wrote a post to discuss the 42 area, which has such a sentence.

Well ... ... This is really a dumbfounding user feedback is not it?

Source: http://jackly.org/ued/reg-password/