Mimi Yin wrote:
I have added an 'Alternate' to the 'Alternate' proposal for how to
provide access to the home directory browsing UI:
Comments in no particular order:
The "sign up; it's free" feels inappropriate for the Cosmo login page.
Perhaps for the hosted service, but not a default for other people
running Cosmo.
The links in the upper right are confusing; do I click them instead of
the submit button to login, or click them to get an alternate signin
username/password form? The answer is easily discoverable once
implemented but mildly confusing from reviewing just the comp.
About Cosmo might be better in the upper right, moving the alternative
logins to center-bottom.
Currently, I favor the conventional checkboxes (radio buttons, probably)
for alternate login (proposal #2), or the commonly used pulldown for
login destination (ala O'Reilly's Safari site), plus a settings option
to add the needed links to a given user's UI.
I don't suspect it's super-important to give direct login for
filesharing or admin users. Admin users should probably go directly to
the admin UI and not the PIM, by virtue of their admin flag setting
(works that way now). Filesharing users will get the same number of
clicks to get to the filebrowsing UI once they set their settings to add
it to the UI. The login page should stay clean and understandable in
preference to being featureful; I'd be ok without any changes to the
login page, but I realize that's not the design team consensus.
As a side note, as long as we're doing login preferences, I think it'd
be great to be able to select whether calendar or dashboard is presented
by default. I'd like to get the calendar by default for my account.
(From a previous review, I felt that perhaps the "switch to calendar"
button wasn't obvious enough in the last comp I saw).
-- Jared
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