Registration refers to signing up for a site or service as a user with a username and password.
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What is the best approach to design registration page
I have seen users (including me) who get frustrating registration page and eventually decide to quit the site. (To be frank few of my friends left registration due to annoying captca verification) As ...
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Two Distinct User Types (buyers/sellers) best approach
I am designing a site that has two, distinct user types: buyers and vendors from a specific industry.
A buyer will log on and make a note of what service they want. Then, a potential vendor will ...
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What is the best way to demonstrate the value of registration to unlock features?
I'm not sure if I phrased that right, so perhaps my specific case will explain for me. I have buttons for "fave"-ing and marking-as-solved on puzzles in my blog. The users that know the features exist ...
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Website registration/login process with highest success rate? [duplicate]
I'm looking for data about how to implement a registration and login process for a new website. We are currently considering four options:
Login with email address and password that is stored in ...
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Best way for sign up process after invite
We are building an app and I'd like to have a faster sign up process for users. Right now users can only get access after they got an invite by mail. After they got the mail, they can click on a link ...
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Social network login or not?
I am developing a niche social networking iPhone app of my own.
I was wondering if it would be best to allow the user to connect to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to login to my app ...
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What to do if a user attempts to login via facebook when they've never registered?
We have an app that that allows you to register via email, facebook, or Google account.
If a user attempts to sign in to our app via Facebook or Google when they have never registered with their ...
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Designing the sign-up process?
I am starting a website consisting of info on local shops, product catalogs, and coupons. now I am in a dilemma over the vendor sign-up process. I want to know which of the following ways should I do ...
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What's better for invitation emails: a temporary password or a one-time login url?
Our web app allows our customers to invite their collaborators into their account. They can submit the new user's email address, and our app sends the new user an email inviting them to login. Once ...
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Is a captcha necessary when email validation is being utilised?
During registration for my new website, I'm going to require that a link is clicked in a confirmation email before a new user has full privileges. Is this a good way to remove spammers/bots, or do you ...
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Security issues if not forcing a user to sign up
I've built a simple web app Flask.io that enables users to create and share to-do lists.
It doesn't require sign up. This is an important differentiator. I don't want to force the user to register ...
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Voucher code field before login in?
On an ecommerce website, in order to checkout/pay, the user will need an account, so he will have to register.
After registering and being logged in, the user will be able to enter a voucher code, ...
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Use a wizard on a simple but big form?
I'm thinking about remaking the registration form on a site I'm working on. The form is simple, but there is too much information to be filled in. It also asks if the user has already participated, in ...
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How to handle registration for a multi-tenanted, multi-sided application?
I'll apologize up front for the long question, but there is no easy way of explaining what we're doing.
We are building a marketplace which is conceptually similar to storenvy.com. It is a ...
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Signing up for a site. Finishing progress after step 1 of 4. What/How to indicate?
EDIT: Screenshots will be added soon to better explain the problem
I got a four step progress on a website signup page and have a 4 stepped progress bar to indicate where the user is currently at:
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Simple registration vs security
I'm doing a reminding service about new episodes of series.
The main idea is to make it very simple to register, like this:
The problem is about the security, I'm not using CAPTCHA nor confirming ...
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Where to place registration form and its contents in page horizontally?
In a registration form I'm having trouble guessing where I should put the text and input fields. Obviously the default is flush against the left side of the screen which looks terrible. I noticed ...
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Layout of information on registration page
I am making the registration page for a website. How should the different components be laid out relative to each other? For example should the heading be on level or above the text input field?
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Telling users passwords don't match and aren't strong enough
I have two functions in my user registration form
One checks the password and confirmed password are the same.
The other checks if the password is strong enough.
I have two presentation related ...
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best way for a multiplayer lobby in a smartphone game
This is how it works now: At this time it is a web app and then:
users choose an ID and a password,
then create a new game,
the server returns the code of the new game created,
the other players ...
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What kind of diagram is best to represent the flow of a registration process?
For planning What is the best way to visually represent a typical registration flow where a user registers on a registration page, there is then a confirmation page followed by validation email and ...
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How to make the user fill out all required fields when signing up
In the registration form for a website, what is the best way to prevent the user from continuing until all the required fields are filled in? For example should the "submit" button be grayed out until ...
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How does the collection of personal information affect a user's likelihood to register to a website?
I'm curious to know how requiring certain pieces of personal information affect a user's likelihood to register on a website and opt-in to receive communications. Is there some "amount," of personal ...
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Free Trial Registration abandonment and resume
Dealing with a free-trial registration that REQUIRES a billing page, unfortunatelty (Credit Card info).
There are 3 steps to this registration:
Account registration
Billing
Confirmation - tell us ...
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Should email verification links expire?
It's a common practice for websites to send email verification links on sign up. Should these verification links expire? I know about a bunch of website where they do and I wonder why?
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How early should you funnel users in a registration process?
As part of a registration form I am building I need to, at some point, differentiate between whether the user is a 'student' or 'professor'. I've seen this handled in two different ways and was ...
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Shopping cart : Checkout
What is the best way to handle a shopping cart checkout :
redirect to paypal and let paypal handle all the work? (user will be send to another page is this an issue ? )
work in steps (like Apple ...
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Registration: Parent and child
currently working on redesigning a registration that serves three different audiences:
Parent and Child
Self (adult)
Third party paying on behalf of someone else
I am less worried about in which ...
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Name of the logged off part of an application/a website
I'd like to know how you would call the part of the application which is not the showcase, not the app itself, but the part between both.
Let me explain with more details. It is something very common ...
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Industry standard drop rate percentages?
When evaluating the registration of a product, and have access to the analytics, is there a good measurement on what a decent "drop-rate" percentage might be?
By drop-rate, I am referring to how many ...
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How to handle “forgot password” when user has not confirmed email?
If you follow the pattern of allowing users access to your application without having confirmed an email (generally considered good UX), how do handle the case where they forgot their password? Very ...
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How to enhance user profile information (add a user nickname) after the fact?
One of the websites I administer has had an active user registration and log in for a long time, which was mostly used to confirm users and send merchandise. So far, there has been no user to user ...
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What is the name of the button that lead to a login and register page (one page)?
I have a page that serve both login and register. I put the two form side by side (login form to the left, register form to the right). In menu header, there would normally be button that lead to ...
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How should I go about integrating Mozilla Persona in a website?
For those who've never heard of it before, Mozilla Persona is a single sign-on method that's pretty strict on privacy. For me, as a website administrator, it means that I don't need to ask the user ...
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How to present content behind a paywall to unregistered users
Say there is a content site that has professional resources for a specific profession. It works on a subscription model, where paid members can freely use/download each resource.
I'm wondering, from ...
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How to provide good mobile phone number verification? [closed]
I'd like to know if there is a way to achieve a good user experience when a user's profile contains a mobile number which needs to be verified via SMS.
The examples I have explored had the mobile ...
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Why do most sites only offer two social login options?
I noticed the that many site only offer two social login options:
Grooveshark: Google, Twitter
Quora: Facebook, Twitter
Digg:: Facebook, Twitter
How does this improve the user experience?
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What happens when users register?
Usually when users register on a site does the email confirmation contain their username and password? When the user clicks the activation link does it make the user sign in or deep link them into a ...
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What's an intuitive workflow for a registering user to simultaneously sign-up his colleagues?
I'm working on a redesign of a website that has a bit of a complicated registration requirement and I just can't get my head around how best to design the necessary forms/pages.
For context, the ...
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Benefits gained by forcing users to register to access content?
Corporate websites often make available white-papers, articles, or other content-related materials pertaining to the company's area of expertise.
While this pattern is consistent, the methods of ...
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What is best practice for data protection on a registration form?
This is in part a UX and a legal (UK) question.
Is there a best practice in terms of opt in statements for data protection for registration. I have had our CRM team suggest that we should include ...
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Force User to Sign In/Sign Up?
We're building a dating site application. In popular dating sites, such as Match.com, users must first sign in or sign up before being able to use the site at all. We see thinking of the site ...
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What fields to drop from the registration form?
Our current registration form is too long and some fields should be cut off. In other hands all most of these are looking important excepting 'Tell us something about yourself'.
Currently used fields ...
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Should my app send a confirmation email on user registration?
I'm grappling with the user registration experience for my application.
I'm considering this model:
User enters...
Username
Password
Password confirmation
Email address
The app displays a ...
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How to handle a complicated registration process
Ok so it is a bit complicated ... bear with me
In my web application, I have something called "Office" and it has many "Employees". An "Employee" can not exist without an "Office". So in my current ...
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Has anyone seen an account activation solution which didn't open another tab
I know account activation can be avoided by using other verification methods such as captchas etc. However I'm wondering if a solution already exists for the following scenario (which happens to be ...
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In non-social applications, are usernames redundant?
If there is no social element to a web app, should the user be asked to create a username during the sign-up process? Is username creation a pointless extra hurdle, or does it serve a purpose?
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Signing up for a site with a social network versus a form
I am designing a registration page for our site where we allow people to signup 3 different ways: Facebook, Twitter and also a manual signup form.
We want to drive people to use Facebook and Twitter ...
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Should (and how should I) I use email addresses for login without validating them?
So that users don't have to remember a username, my webapp doesn't ask users to enter one (accounts are private and there are no profiles or user-generated content). However, I would also prefer not ...
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User registration tips
I have a site that requires email validation as well as sms (cellphone number) validation. At the moment my registrations Vs non registrations are 10 to 1 (towards non registrations). This is almost ...
