Comments on: Registration Usability – 87 Registration Forms Tested

By: Qasim Virjee

Qasim Virjee — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:25:16 +0000

We went for a super-simple yet whimsical design for our free account signup page over on introduction.io – reviewing the membership features and including a fun illustration: http://www.introduction.io/user/register

By: Justin Holbert

Justin Holbert — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:54:03 +0000

When setting up a form for my site I am going to require an address for shipping hardwood and laminate samples. Do you think this will make less people sign up for the samples?

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By: iStyle

iStyle — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:58:41 +0000

Good Tips
Thanks

By: SMO-Eric

SMO-Eric — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:40:03 +0000

Hi Linda,thanks for replying.

Good news that you see no usability issues in the user name availability thing.Just mentioned that out of curiosity and wanted to know if that was missed.

Geni.com’s approach,I agree with you about the follow-up bothering.If it is a usability flaw,however,depends.If you emphasize on getting more new registers,then this may be a great idea; otherwise,it just bothers.

Nonetheless,it adds no additional step – it actually equates because the register form omits a step.

And that’s my opinion.

By: Linda Bustos

Linda Bustos — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:04:46 +0000

Hi Eric,
I was looking at a given set of online retailers from the Internet Retailer 500 Guide. These are the most common practice among that set and the user name I entered in all of them was no problem. It could be that some sites had a “try again” mechanism for dupe login names (especially Amazon) but that was not observed in this data collection exercise.

Re: Geni.com approach, while that simplifies password creation, most folks are going to forget that long string of characters or will need to change it to something more memorable, so it actually adds a step, which detracts from usability. Just my opinion on it.

By: SMO-Eric

SMO-Eric — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:42:00 +0000

nice post.

1.seems that you didn’t test reg.forms with user name availability?

2.i like Geni.com’s idea of reg form usability:after a single entry of my email address,i’m in and using the full site.and the password is sent to that email address so i can use it to re-log in. this is an example of extreme simplism of usability,i think.

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By: Bjoern

Bjoern — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:48:59 +0000

Here in Germany the customers may be a little bit different!?
The most used shopping system is xtcommerce in which the customer can choose during the checkout if he wants to order as guest, create an account or login. In the software or via the shop-template the shop-owner can configure these options.

In a discussion about which way is the best with or without “guest account” it comes out that it seems to depend on the targetting customer group.

I’m thinking about an checkout without any separat login page/box. The first information a customer has to enter is his email address which is check (via e.g. Ajax) if it’s already known so a password-inputbox will appear if not the whole registration form (with the most needed informations) will appear.

What do you think about this way?

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