I'm interested in any information I can find on the effectiveness of websites creating auto-accounts. The only examples I can find so far are like what happens when a user posts a comment on engadget: an email is sent to the user's account, where they have to click the link to post the comment. Additionally, in the bottom of that email, is an auto-generated user name and password, for the poster's theoretical subsequent visits.
Does anyone know how effective this is? Do users see this info and use it on subsequent visits? The (unreleased) social app I'm working on takes this one step farther, and uses the send-to-a-friend paradigm to create an auto-account. When the "friend" clicks the link in their email to see the content, the auto-generated account info (along with links to edit username and password) are displayed on the page with the message/content they hopefully will interact with. (The auto-generated account info will also be in the email). Essentially, then, the send-to-a-friend action creates auto-accounts for all recipients of those emails. Anyone have any thoughts, anecdotal or otherwise, as to whether users understand the idea of an auto-generated account, and if it indeed works to remove barrier to participation? Thanks, Tori ux consultant ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
