Re: [Design] UX question about username choice on signup

2014-02-18 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 01/04/2014 09:52 PM, Matthew Flaschen 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

Re: [Design] UX question about username choice on signup

2014-02-18 Thread Gryllida
What problem are we trying to solve here? From reading the discussion the warning is unintrusive and doesn't impose any additional clicks when registering — thanks! — but it would be interesting to know whether any registered contributors experienced surprise about their username being

Re: [Design] UX question about username choice on signup

2014-02-18 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm wrote: Seriously? User enters a username and the program silently registers him with another username than he entered? Only capitalization of the first letter or trivial whitespace changes. The vast majority of users do not