I know I've felt myself wondering every time I enter a password: why must
this be hidden from me. No one is around to watch my password. Especially
on my mobile phone. The percentage of times that I would want that is tiny.
It makes sense for the default to help the much more common case.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015, 12:18 PM John Gruen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Everything Ryan says is correct, except I strenuously object to being
> described as "deeply moved" by this article. Let's go with "interested".
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Ryan Feeley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> John and I were recently deeply moved by Luke W’s long form article on
>> showing passwords by default.
>>
>> http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1941
>>
>> TL;DR – when users understand their passwords are being shown before they
>> start typing, they are okay with it, and it helps them sign in with much
>> higher success.
>>
>> Now that we are tracking the success rate of our forms that require
>> passwords, and also (soon?) tracking the usage of the Show password
>> control, I would like to propose that we run an experiment to show the
>> password by default with this design.
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ee4kkq52i2ve4rd/two-options.png?dl=0
>>
>> The left shows the default state (on) and the right shows the unchecked
>> state.
>>
>> Make sense?
>>
>> Ryan Feeley
>> UX, Cloud Services
>> Mozilla UX
>> IRC: rfeeley
>>
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