I know I've felt myself wondering every time I enter a password: why must this be hidden from me. No one is around to watch my password. Especially on my mobile phone. The percentage of times that I would want that is tiny. It makes sense for the default to help the much more common case.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015, 12:18 PM John Gruen <[email protected]> wrote: > Everything Ryan says is correct, except I strenuously object to being > described as "deeply moved" by this article. Let's go with "interested". > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:57 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 >> >> 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Dev-fxacct mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct >
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