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I am trying to design a simple login and password signin dialog box that pops in on the same page.

I don't want the user to navigate AWAY from the page to login.

I am looking for examples of sites that successfully implement this.

Placement, graphics, type of controls. Visually is it best to show a 'keyhole' tab, once clicked the sign up / sign in page appears?

I personally am heading to that type of setup, but have not found other sites implementing this type of setup (I am sure there are, I just am not very good at finding those sites)

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I very much like the current Gist login which matches your needs. You click the login button which is clearly identifiable at the top in a crisp cleanly designed page and the popup appears around it. You use the same button to hide it. The popup appears brighter because the rest of the screen darkens slightly - not so much as to throw you - but just enough to make it effective.

I think it's an excellent example in almost every respect!

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See also Break: which includes options to sign in with facebook

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Barnes and Noble although this particular design looks like the whole page has faded - including the form itself!

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Slashdot which has a nice simple popup appearing

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as well as The Huffington Post.

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  • Very nice login, I wonder if there are more sites out there like that (to comapre). Not crazy about the darkening, but yes it is effective.
    – eLouai
    Sep 12, 2011 at 9:08
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    @eLouai - I added some more examples to compare with
    – Roger Attrill
    Sep 12, 2011 at 9:25

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