Registration refers to signing up for a site or service as a user with a username and password.
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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Is it better to ask for 'full name' or 'first name' and 'last name' in a registration form? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
I want to make name input one field instead of first name/Last name. Wise? Worth it?
I want to know that whether full name or first name and last name is better to ask ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Best place to put registration fields?
I have a form that will allow a user to post a classified listing on my site. The thing is, we required users to be signed in to post...so instead of redirecting a user to a separate page to sign in ...
