[OpenID] Yahoo OpenID UX Study

Martin Atkins mart at degeneration.co.uk
Fri Oct 10 22:55:17 UTC 2008


Allen Tom wrote:
> Paul Madsen wrote:
>   
>> can the Yahoo recommendation to clearly distinguish between local and 
>> OpenID UI be reconciled with Google's recent research - which proposes 
>> conflating them?
>>     
> One of the recommendations which I did not mention in my email, but is 
> listed on Slide 19 of the study, is for RPs to suggest OpenID login if 
> the user fails to login using an email address belonging to an OpenID 
> Provider.
>
> For instance, users who fail to login with an @yahoo.com email address 
> could be prompted to login via Yahoo OpenID. This is fairly consistent 
> with Google's recommendation.
>
>   

Perhaps this would be a good opportunity for the RP to tell the user off 
for sharing foreign account passwords with other sites and explain why 
that's a bad idea.

I realise in practice that RPs are unlikely to want to antagonize 
potential users, but I can dream. :)




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