{"id":392,"date":"2007-09-07T23:47:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T06:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=392"},"modified":"2007-09-08T08:41:22","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T15:41:22","slug":"mobile-usability-tips-1-registration-and-login","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/392\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Usability Tips #1 – Registration and Login"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is the first in a series of tips on enhancing the usability of mobile websites. I’m beginning with user registration and login.<\/p>\n
But first a quiz, can you spot three mobile usability problems<\/strong> with the Facebook <\/em>login screen in the image? The answers are at the bottom of this post.<\/p>\n Most web services require new users to register. This practice has been carried over to the mobile web. Unfortunately registering typically requires quite a bit of typing – something that is much more difficult on the average phone than on a PC. Here are some tips for improving the mobile user experience of a registration based site.<\/p>\n These tips primarily apply to mobile sites that let users create and share content – like forums and social networks.<\/p>\n Email and calendar sites, online shopping sites and especially mobile banking need robust and potentially more cumbersome security. But even a banking site shouldn’t use an email address as an ID and should offer some mobile content that doesn’t require registration like an ATM finder.<\/p>\n I’m always surprised to see how many big name mobile sites are built with really poor usability in areas of registration and login. The currently hot Facebook’<\/em>s mobile site <\/em>is one of the worst in this regard, with at least three registration related usability issues:<\/p>\n This is the first in a series of tips on enhancing the usability of mobile websites. I’m beginning with user registration and login. But first a quiz, can you spot three mobile usability problems with the Facebook login screen in the image? The answers are at the bottom of this post. Most web services require new users to register. This practice has been carried over to the mobile web. Unfortunately registering typically requires quite a bit of typing – something … Continue reading \n
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