[OpenID] [WG-ULX] New login UI prototype; please kick the tires

[Eric Norman]

On Aug 6, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Nate Klingenstein wrote:

> Brian,
> 
>> Agreed, the type-ahead box is a great UX for long lists of providers.  Are
>> there any sites that have that approach implemented today that we can take
>> a look at?
> 
> Sure.  One fine immediate large example is the Shibboleth 2 Wiki itself.  If you:
> 
> A) Go to https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB2/Home
> B) Click "Login"
> C) Start typing, e.g. "London", or "California", etc.

I tried that.  I typed in "wis" and it gave me three choices and I picked where I am.
I would not have been surprised if it had gone to the login page after I did that
selection, but it didn't.  So I expected to have a button to push to get to the UW
login page.  The "obvious" one is the one to the right of the text box, but that says
"search"; I tried it anyway.  That sure didn't do what I wanted.

So I started again and then looked down at the bottom  for a button that said
some customary thing like "continue", or "next", or "submit"; there's one labeled
"select"; Is that it?.  I tried it.  It seemed to do a form reset.

After a lot of putzing, I found out that you need to click in the text box after selecting
from the choices and then type a carriage return.

This is not to detract from the concept, but this particular implementation could use
some work.  User interfaces that don't behave as expected are confusing at best.

Eric