Registration refers to signing up for a site or service as a user with a username and password.
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Why should we ask the password twice during registration?
It would be easier to ask for a user's password only once during registration.
The problem: The user could make a mistake while typing the password once because of hiding letters.
The solution: The ...
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How much information should you ask for when users register?
So the company wants all the information it can get on the users of its site, but how much should be asked for upon registration?
On one hand, it would be easier for the users to enter only personal ...
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Should we restrict signup for a service to Facebook accounts only?
There are obvious advantages to limiting sign-ups to a service like Facebook connect - getting a name, age, avatar, etc. without the annoyance to your customers of asking them to fill it all in.
We ...
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All my users are from Afghanistan or how to get users to correctly fill out a form
I have a website with a form users fill out to create an account. Following advice from this forum and other places I am asking for only the minimum required information to create an account ie. ...
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activation email message optimization
I've got a site (e.g FooBar) and 1 out of 2 users registering never activate their account (via clicking on an email link) so I'm trying to improve this.
The flow is pretty standard:
user lands on ...
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When form submission fails, password field gets blanked, why is that the case?
I've seen many registration forms where if fields don't pass validation, the password fields are blanked as well.
Why is this the case? I understand why you'd blank the password in a login form, but ...
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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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Which trial experience is better?
Imagine a professional online application in Flash or Silverlight that's being sold for around $15 per person. Which in your opinion is best for the first-time visitor?
Give everyone access to all ...
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Should we send both username and password after registration?
After users have registered on a website, should that website send both username and password in their registration confirmation email ?
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Sign up: Double opt-in still best practice? What about mobile?
Everybody knows the normal registration process:
Fill in sign up form
Wait for email
Click confirmation link in email
Done (signed in & confirmation by email)
IMO this process works because ...
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When to use “join,” “register,” or “sign up”?
For a user, when is it better to be asked to do the following:
"Sign In" vs. "Log in"
"Join" vs. "Register" vs. "Sign Up"
"Sign Out" vs. "Log out"
Different websites seem to use them differently, ...
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Login / Sign-Up as one form [closed]
Has anyone seen any good examples of a basic form (e-mail / password) that a site uses for both existing users to login and for new members to start a registration process?
Yes, I'm thinking ...
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What is the most pleasant and fast UX when logging in / registering for a private web-app?
In my case, the openId login is out of the question. The application that I'm working on will only allow corporate users with a given specific email domain to register.
The login/register form needs ...
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Making the user login again after registration
Simple question: is it a bad idea to automatically login a user after their registration was flawlessly completed? A majority of all the websites I visit does not use this behavior, which is the ...
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Registration: Username and password or email and password
During a registration process what would the reasons be for using: username/password or email/password combinations to register the user?
Is it a case of identification once in the system (may be ...
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“Sign Up” vs “Create an Account”
Which pick is better for a service? Especially if I would like the website to resemble American style.
Gmail and Dropbox say: "Sign In or create an account"
Yahoo says: "Sign In. New here? Sign ...
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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 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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barebone registration: is password repitition and captcha really essential?
If you design a barebone registration form which only requires
email address and password as essentials can you omit the password repetition and captcha without too much technical trouble?
I ...
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Recording Debit/Credit Card Details at the start of a 'Free Trial'?
Does anyone have experience, analytics or similar on the impact of taking payment details at the start of a free trial period for a product?
It's one of the things I hate the most about trialing ...
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Subliminal user registration
I'm developing a forum/community board and I want to avoid registration forms. So I decided to make user registration almost implicit.
What I mean is, if an unregistered user is about to do something ...
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Evaluation period with or without license key?
Are there any studies that indicate whether there is a negative effect of requiring users to apply for and enter a license key to e.g. a 30 day evaluation of (non-SaaS) software?
My feeling is that ...
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Pros and Cons for having same form for login, register and forgotten password
I have notice some sites have the same form for login, register and forgotten password.
Below the form you have 3 buttons
i forgot my password
register
log me in
What are the pros and cons on ...
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Should I use a timer on a registration page to reserve seats?
I'm working on an online registration system for my company that allows our customers to register for events.
Once the customer has selected their seats and signed in, we "reserve" the seats, ...
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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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Is the idea of user registration flawed if we can't provide any real value for it?
I work in a newspaper publishing company and currently, all the contents in our site is free and no user registration is required.
Recently, the lifestyle column team propose to implement a small and ...
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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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Should registration be optional on an e-commerce site?
I am developing an e-commerce web site which will sell tourism services (airport transfer, accommodation, excursions, etc.). I am on a path here that I need to decide if I will provide a membership ...
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Should user registration be tabbed or part of a multi-step form?
I am trying to find a good way to design my registration form. I have looked at the idea of having multiple steps for the form. Or using a tabular layout. Both of pros and cons. I am wondering which ...
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Social Login adoption vs Traditional Login
I have implemented janrain's social login on my website. I am wondering how important it is to include a traditional login (email/password) system.
I believe there may be a significant percentage of ...
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Ways to avoid online contest voting fraud … is SMS account verification too much to ask?
Mitigating Cheating & Voter Fraud in Online Contests…
We run online contests of various sorts that involve users voting on entries (usually one vote per user per day). The prizes range from ...
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Which to show first: login or register screen or both?
I have a site for which I am working to improve user onboarding.
What happens now is that when a user does some action that requires him to be logged in, I make a jQuery popup come up telling him to ...
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Where do users expect to find the “create new account” functionality?
I'm developing a website where users will be able to sign in, and thus they need to be able to register.
Is it sufficient to include the registration functionality (or link to it) on the sign-in ...
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Email confirmation after paid user registration
We are developing a website where user registration is paid. My confusion is regarding, whether an email with activation link needs to be sent after the registration is complete (payment is part of ...
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Is it better to force sign in before or during restricted forms?
I am building a form that will require a person to be signed in to successfully post. Filling out this for is ESSENTIAL to my web application, so I really want to make it as painless as possible - ...
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Deliberate Barriers to Entry in Web Design
ACHICA.com has taken the "members only club" concept to a level I've never seen online; you can hardly view anything on the site without registering. This is the first time I've seen barriers to entry ...
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Wizard steps - how should I label them?
I've built a 3 steps registration wizard because my user must fill in 19 (!) fields. (Its a regulatory issue that can't be argued).
I split them steps to 3:
1. Account information
2. General ...
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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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Accessing secure content
Which of the permutations for accessing secure content do folks prefer? In this instance I'm referring to a saved quote and have usernames, email addresses and quote reference numbers available.
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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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Is it user-friendly to ask the user their religion upon registration?
My app needs to know the user's religion to show the appropriate holidays in their calendar. For example, it won't show Christmas if the user is a Muslim.
The problem is that users may find it very ...
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Triaging UI improvements, where to start?
I have been hired to redesign an auction website (which I cannot disclose), the usability, design, even the code beauty is pretty disastrous. The trouble is, the site is already active and my client ...
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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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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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How to prevent registration from login page and login from registration page
During user tests we see quite some people 1) enter their previous chosen login details (email+pass) on the registration page. Including them wondering "why we ask all this information again?". The ...
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How should the sign-up page for a mobile website work?
How should the sign-up page for a mobile website be?
For example:-
Does repeat password make more sense or less on mobile version of a website. To put it differently, are users more prone to make a ...
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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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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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On Android, how do you design a very shallow navigation?
I need to create a simple account section in my mobile app with 1-level deep navigation:
___ Register
/
Account --
\___ Login
On iPhone, I'm using a grouped table ...
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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, ...
