<div dir="ltr"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; ">Last Week the OpenID Foundation held the first meeting of their Content Provider Advisory Committee to gather feedback on how to evolve the best practices for using OpenID so that it might be used by websites in a larger number of market segments. The meeting included representatives from many mainstream content websites including The New York Times, BBC, AARP, Time Inc., and NPR. I attended from Google, and thought the team who pulled together the meeting did a great job arranging it.</span><br>
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; ">Google has been researching federated login techniques, and at the meeting we showed how a traditional login box might evolve (see below) to a new style of login box that better supports federated login.<br>
<br><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/UXFedLogin" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QKsE9CsgBoM/SNPGx-SqoYI/AAAAAAAAAVc/a2Mcm_Jhbps/s400-R/login.png" style="padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); "></a><br>
<br>We also shared a <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/UXFedLogin">summary</a> of our usability research that explains how this helps a website add support for federated login for some users without hurting usability for the rest of the website's user base. This research is not yet finalized, and we are still working with a bunch of companies to gather more feedback to tune this research. If you have any feedback, feel free to get in touch with me. However more generally we hope people will continue to contribute to the user experience discussions that are happening regarding many different use cases for OpenID, and not just the one covered in this research document.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">p.s. For Google's original blog post on this research, please refer to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/09/usability-research-on-federated-login.html">http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/09/usability-research-on-federated-login.html</a></span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Eric Sachs</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Product Manager, Google Security</span></div>
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