Comments on: Twitter Signup Page Has Usability Flaws, Really? http://blog.sachinkraj.com/twitter-signup-page-has-usability-flaws/ Web Development Tutorials, How-To's and Design Tips Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SachinKRaj http://blog.sachinkraj.com/twitter-signup-page-has-usability-flaws/#comment-1924 SachinKRaj Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:46:21 +0000 http://blog.sachinkraj.com/?p=1367#comment-1924 @Jasper, Thanks a lot for writing your views here: I totally agree with your point on allowing users to have single character username. I just tried pointing out the most generic way of validating a username field. Twitter also did it, when you start typing username in the filed it searches for the availability and shows the error message that "it is already taken" but it don't show up same error after submitting the form and I think it should show up rather than showing up "OK". I agree with your point on captcha and making it more easy for users. Popular websites like Facebook, New York Times, twitter etc are using reCAPTCHA and it has become the most popular spam protection tool to use with forms. According to recent stats published on wikipedia, reCAPTCHA reported to solve 200 million captchas every day. But again like you said, when we talk about usability, it should be usable and more easy. @Jasper, Thanks a lot for writing your views here:

I totally agree with your point on allowing users to have single character username. I just tried pointing out the most generic way of validating a username field. Twitter also did it, when you start typing username in the filed it searches for the availability and shows the error message that “it is already taken” but it don’t show up same error after submitting the form and I think it should show up rather than showing up “OK”.

I agree with your point on captcha and making it more easy for users. Popular websites like Facebook, New York Times, twitter etc are using reCAPTCHA and it has become the most popular spam protection tool to use with forms. According to recent stats published on wikipedia, reCAPTCHA reported to solve 200 million captchas every day. But again like you said, when we talk about usability, it should be usable and more easy.

]]> By: Jasper http://blog.sachinkraj.com/twitter-signup-page-has-usability-flaws/#comment-1923 Jasper Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:30:57 +0000 http://blog.sachinkraj.com/?p=1367#comment-1923 Hi, interesting your point of view on the usability of the twitter sign-up. I don't agree your point that the full name and username must contain more than 1 character, unlike it's an issue I think it's usable, why limit a user who just to be known as a single character? Besides the e-mail validation bug, the only usability issue I see is the shortage coming feedback of the 'too short password' message, this message have to contain the minimum requirement specification to aid the user resolving it. In addition the usability of this type of captcha is arguable. For example a simple math question, like 1+1, is more usable te be filled in. Greets Jasper Hi, interesting your point of view on the usability of the twitter sign-up.
I don’t agree your point that the full name and username must contain more than 1 character, unlike it’s an issue I think it’s usable, why limit a user who just to be known as a single character?

Besides the e-mail validation bug, the only usability issue I see is the shortage coming feedback of the ‘too short password’ message, this message have to contain the minimum requirement specification to aid the user resolving it.

In addition the usability of this type of captcha is arguable. For example a simple math question, like 1+1, is more usable te be filled in.

Greets
Jasper

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