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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Is offering more than one openid/social-sign-in option a good idea?
Lots of sites nowadays offer the option to log in via Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and so on, and sometimes a standard username/password option as well.
While this goes a long way toward helping users ...
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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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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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How to convert a visitor/ browser to a user?
I run a social learning network that enables anyone to create a class/ workshop on almost any non-academic topic and allows users to register online. Anybody can be a teacher or learner. Its free.
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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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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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How to handle creating new account with email address that is unverified on another account?
We have email address verification on our accounts. Users have to verify their email addresses when they create their accounts and when they update their email addresses on existing accounts. With new ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is it good user experience to only require an email address at signup?
Is it a good idea to only require an email address from users at signup (without a password or other details)? After they sign up, we will send a random password to their email address; this password ...
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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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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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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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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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Should a classifieds website user be made to sign up before posting ads?
I am in the classifieds website business. I am struggling to find general consensus about the best way to design a user experience for being able to post ads on a classifieds site. Specifically, the ...
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Building a marketplace - which one is better a unified registration or two separate ones?
I'm currently building a marketplace. And need to decide whether to:
Have two separate registration forms - one for the buyer and one for the seller
Have a single registration form and then when a ...
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Should an E-commerce Site that is predominantly a B2B site have OAuth?
A company that I work at from time to time is looking to add OAuth to their site, and had asked for my recommendation if it's worth the development time and if people would actually use it.
In my ...
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How to drive conversion in a website?
I've built a website for a startup. The websites purpose is to convert the visitors (mostly iPhone developers) to register to the beta of the SDK that the website presents.
Out of about 100 visitors ...
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Registration Button Research
I'm redesigning the registration page for my website, and I'm wondering if anyone has come across any research relating to the affects of different wording and colors for the registration button?
How ...
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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 ...
