Following up
The New Registration and Login Grammars, I thought it would be interesting to look at how signup forms have changed over the years.
1999
Excite!. Goes so far as to ask you your race, and then a further question about whether you are of Hispanic or Latino descent. Oh, and then your household income! Talk [...]
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Tags: history·Login·Usability·Web
There is a well-established “grammar” for how we sign up and log into websites. Provide your name, email and password; verify the email; login to the site with username and password until you’re timed out. You know the drill. But a wave of new web apps and protocols is challenging the status quo, breaking the [...]
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Tags: Login·OAuth·OpenID·Posterous·Security·Usability·Web
