[OpenID] OpenID SREG best practice question

[Dick Hardt]

On 12-Nov-08, at 11:32 AM, Eric Norman wrote:

>
> On Nov 12, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Dick Hardt wrote:
>
>>> Or the "best practice" could be that "consent" is
>>> never permanent and every time the RP asks the user has to approve
>>> again
>>> (though previous selections could be remembered).
>>
>> That would be irritating
>
> Can you or anyone else cite some usability studies
> that indicate it would indeed be irritating?
>
> I don't think tasks are considered irritants if
> their purpose and consequences are understood and
> don't require too much effort, either physical or
> cognitive. But that's just what I think; it would
> be good to have usability studies that either
> support or refute that hypothesis.

I don't know of any specific studies.

In products I have designed, users have expressed annoyance that they  
had to do something they had already decided.

Many UX's have a box that allows the user to say they don't want to be  
asked about something again.

-- Dick