Stop asking me for confirmation

Zadralo.

So tightly rooted around this rubbish, and that already not to meet a human relationship to himself as a user.



Duplication of an element implies the essential importance of the information entered into it.

What is so important about the password? What is the worst thing to happen if you enter it incorrectly during registration?

Collapse, the ubiquitous end of the world, gas and hot water?

Taking into account the fact that the password is usually sent to the specified e-mail, that's okay: I made a mistake, it turned out bad - I'll change it, I'm too lazy to change it - I will find it in the letter.

Not sent - I can always change, there would be a good e-mail address.



Have you seen cases of duplication of input fields of other information?

"Name / Name", "About Me / About Me". Not met? ..

Oh yes - e-mail. Another relic and tradition, but even it is more important than a password.

Specifying the wrong e-mail is much more fraught than to come up with an “ugly” password.

But to require to enter it twice - even more nonsense than a password.

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Here it is necessary to minimize the password and touch duplication on the example of e-mail.

How long have you last entered the main e-mail with your hands?

If the form developer did not philosophize slyly and gave the form field a "standard" name "email" - the address will probably prompt the browser.

Even if you entered with your hands, do you enter with your hands a second time?

Does input attenuation increase with duplicate? On the contrary: you enter and the matter of the developer, his relatives and the canary.

You think: “Okay, strike fast with your hands,” and then you seal up, introducing a second time. Familiar?

Spent time, nerves, sense - zero.



What does the form of “increased usability” write to you when the values ​​of duplicate fields did not match?

That's right - "does not match."

Surprised, damn it. It helped.

Now sit, look for where and what you are not so hammered. Where is the correct value? Where is the typo?

Found? Drive in a new one, or copy the correct version.

In the e-mail you can still see the error, and they hid the password, taking care of me - drive both of them again, maybe the hand will not falter.



Password hide.

Around spies, everyone badly needs my passwords.

Well, feed paranoia and leave the password hiding by default, so as not to irritate the unusual behavior over the years the trained user.

But let me see what I entered, if no one is standing behind me and five cameras are sent to my monitor!



What do they want to achieve from me by doing two things: hiding the input value and offering to enter it twice?

Improve password complexity? Hell no.

A person is given the task to enter a complex one, and I hope you use complex passwords, a sequence. Blindly. Twice.

Preparation for the sapper craft, not otherwise.



To invent a difficult password in such a situation is unrealistic. More truly, to think up - it is real more than, to repeat and remember it is unreal.

That forces either to enter a long-invented and used password, or to invent it in another place - for example, a text editor - and copy it into the field.

Well, either use the password manager and copy from there to two places.

Form developers test my ability to copy text into fields?



Did hiding help? No, stuffed in the editor and copied.

Increased complexity? No, I drove blindly simpler so as not to be mistaken.



Well, can this increase your attention when entering a password?

Well, yes, when you enter it from the third time - you will invariably be attentive and rub off half the input a couple of times so as not to see again the nasty inscription about the mismatch of fields.

And why care? Damn it, it's just a password! My name and list of hobbies is more important!



None of the perceived benefits came true.

Farce.

"Just like others".



As a result, you can spend up to a few minutes on a completely uncritical thing and finish the registration not in a satisfied mood, anticipating the benefits of the service, but cursing and cursing everything, wondering five times if you need it and what kind of idiot it was.



Do you need a lot to radically change the situation?

Not:

1. remove duplicate fields;

2. give the opportunity to see the entered value.



Everything! No nerves, complicated passwords, users satisfied with the registration procedure.

It's very simple, even the work becomes a little less - no need to check two values.



Comrades, think about the users. Test the forms on data other than "111" and "222", then you can use the same one yourself.



Thank you, transferred to user interfaces.