On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:57 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 > > Cool article. Thoughts: 1) Luke seems focused on Mobile in that article. On Mobile, users have different security/trust expectations than on Desktop. 2) FWIW, I tried show people’s password by default on Desktop in my password manager project ~2010 (for the same reasons Luke discusses) and lots of people freaked out. We started hiding it by default instead. -chris > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev-fxacct mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct > >
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