What is OpenID? OpenID allows you to use an existing account to sign in to multiple websites, without needing to create new passwords. You may choose to associate information with your OpenID that can be shared with the websites you visit, such as a name or email address. With OpenID, you control how much of that information is shared with the websites you visit. With OpenID, your password is only given to your identity provider, and that provider then confirms your identity to the websites you visit. Other than your provider, no website ever sees your password, so you don’t need to worry about an unscrupulous or insecure website compromising your identity.
OpenID is rapidly gaining adoption on the web, with over one billion OpenID enabled user accounts and over 50,000 websites accepting OpenID for logins. Who Owns or Controls OpenID? OpenID was created in the summer of 2005 by an open source community trying to solve a problem that was not easily solved by other existing identity technologies. OAuth Community Site.
Account Sign-in: 8 Design Mistakes to Avoid. By Jared M. Spool Originally published: Jan 04, 2008 Along with their popular line of high-end networking equipment, Cisco Systems offers something else for Cisco.com visitors to buy: a line of Cisco-brand leisure wear and accessories, everything from wind breakers to golf balls. The only problem is, to see the line of logo-emboldened products, you need to first fill out a registration form. Yes. There are many great business advantages to having users create an account and log into the system.
Yet, in usability test after usability test, we see the registration and sign-in processes to be consistently problematic. Designing an account registration and sign-in process that doesn't frustrate users turns out to be very difficult to achieve. Here are 8 common design mistakes we often see as we watch users try to create accounts and sign into the site: Mistake #1: Having a Sign-in In The First Place Fortunately, most sites don't take this approach. And, that's the way customers like it. 8 More Design Mistakes with Account Sign-in. By Jared M. Spool Originally published: Jan 14, 2008 (Editor's note: In Part I of this article, Jared talked about the first eight of the design mistakes with account sign-in. In this article, he shares eight more mistakes. Designing an account registration and sign-in process that doesn't frustrate users turns out to be very difficult to achieve.
It looks easy at the outset, but a pile of subtleties can sneak up on your experience, making something that should be simple become stressful for the users. In my recent article, I discussed eight common design mistakes with account sign-in. Mistake #9: Not Telling Users the Requirements for Username and Password Up Front On the Cisco site, when selecting a User ID, users are told that it "must contain at least one letter and no spaces.
It's not clear why Cisco felt the need to surprise short-labeled users with this additional requirement. Blinksale does one better, giving feedback on every character typed. Finding the Mistakes.