> When have you ever gone to “Forgot your password” without entering an email first, or having guessed a password? Clicking on this autofills the email you had in the login form...
1) I love reading posts about UI features, but I noticed something ironic about this one: both e-mail and password fields are cleared when an authentication error occurs, so clicking "Forgot Password" will result in a blank e-mail being copied over. If a user bothers to type in their email address, they will probably also try a password and click login at least once before clicking "Forgot Password", so by then the email will be blank again.
2) Another interesting difference is how this site and Quora display user photos. Quora will tell you if your e-mail is not in the system or needs confirmation, while this site always returns an invalid password message, even if the user doesn't exist in the system.
The big UX flaw here is that a photo might frustrate a typical user into trying lots of passwords since their photo shows up when they type their e-mail address, when in fact they don't have an account or used another e-mail to register.
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> When have you ever gone to “Forgot your password” without entering an email first, or having guessed a password? Clicking on this autofills the email you had in the login form...
1) I love reading posts about UI features, but I noticed something ironic about this one: both e-mail and password fields are cleared when an authentication error occurs, so clicking "Forgot Password" will result in a blank e-mail being copied over. If a user bothers to type in their email address, they will probably also try a password and click login at least once before clicking "Forgot Password", so by then the email will be blank again.
2) Another interesting difference is how this site and Quora display user photos. Quora will tell you if your e-mail is not in the system or needs confirmation, while this site always returns an invalid password message, even if the user doesn't exist in the system.
The big UX flaw here is that a photo might frustrate a typical user into trying lots of passwords since their photo shows up when they type their e-mail address, when in fact they don't have an account or used another e-mail to register.