OpenID User Experiences found in the wild

[Johannes Ernst]

Completely agree. We already started a wiki page to collect best  
practices:
     http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/User_Experience_In_The_Wild

Would be great if people could add what they like ...


On Nov 9, 2006, at 5:40, Mike Ozburn wrote:

> This is a great beginning.  It seems that we really need to begin  
> to capture some "best practices" for implementing OpenID to help  
> everyone (consumers, providers, relying parties, etc. etc.) get a  
> handle on how to help roll this out.  It seems to me that  
> regardless of any "community" efforts, the introduction of OpenID,  
> and its benefits or pitfalls, is going to occur on a "service by  
> service" or "site by site" basis.  The more we can do to help these  
> individual sites and services "do it consistently" or "do it  
> right," the smoother the introduction and adoption.
>
> Does that make sense?  Does that sound overly "centralized?"  Does  
> anyone have some examples you would point to that might give us a  
> good roadmap from a "marketing" perspective.
>
> I think this is an important aspect to the OpenID marketing plan,  
> even though it may seem like we are still very early in the  
> process.  In our world I think the old adage still holds true:   
> "you only get one chance to make a 'first' impression."
>
> Is this a different topic for a different string?
>
> mike
>
> Chris Messina wrote:
>> Awesome!
>>
>> Yeah, so here's a pretty interesting use case -- which I think we  
>> need
>> to address... stringing one OpenID to another... to another... to
>> another... and communicating which OpenID sites are consumers vs
>> providers -- which is lame, since they all should really go both  
>> ways.
>>
>> Consider this: I added OpenID to my WordPress blog (temporarily). I
>> logged in using claimid.com/factoryjoe. That was successful and
>> everything worked like it should. I went to my profile and I was able
>> to add other OpenID accounts to consolidate my identity... oo, neat!
>>
>> So I decided to add factoryjoe.livejournal.com... I was taken to
>> LiveJournal where I first logged in normally (not with OpenID) and
>> that got me nowhere... So I logged out of LJ, and logged back in w/
>> OpenID -- which created a *new* account on LJ based on my ClaimID
>> account... soooooo.... now I have *two* accounts that I apparently
>> can't transfer back to my WordPress blog because it turns out
>> LiveJournal doesn't allow for remote authentication.
>>
>> Jeez, woulda been nice to know that first, eh?
>>
>> Anyway, that kind of killed it for me.
>>
>> Oh, and the username created on the WordPress blog was less than  
>> ideal
>> (not simply Alans fault) since there are no standards on how to  
>> create
>> GUID-like, URL-based "same names" for databases.
>>
>> Anyway, just a couple observations and experiences.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 11/2/06, Johannes Ernst <jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us> wrote:
>>
>>> I started a page to collect what OpenID relying party implementers
>>> actually do today in terms of user experience.
>>>
>>> http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/User_Experience_In_The_Wild
>>>
>>> It's very rudimentary. Please add to it!!
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Johannes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Johannes Ernst
>>> NetMesh Inc.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   http://netmesh.info/jernst
>>>
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