What are all of the things that could need to be changed about a user name?
rather than getting to an error state could we just prohibit the user from creating incomptible input in the first place with something like this? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3199291/block-some-characters-from-being-typed-in-a-text-box Automatically capitalize the first character when entering text in the box, strip consecutive double spaces, and ignore when there is input of invalid characters? *Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman<https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Matthew Flaschen <[email protected]>wrote: > This is really a UX question, not design per se. > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104926/ (an under-review change) adds > a warning if you choose a username that needs to be > reformatted/canonicalized. For example, "my username" is changed to "My > username". > > It displays the warning, puts the new username ("My username") in the box, > then you have to retype your password (twice), then press enter to confirm. > > The main potential benefit, as I see it, is that if you don't like "My > username" (the reformatted version), you can choose a different username > entirely. > > User experience feedback would be welcome; you can post on the change or > here. > > Matt Flaschen > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >
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