Open Connect - A UX proposal for the OpenStack

[David Fuelling]

Hi Sebastian,

I love your mockups!   Great ideas!

The only flaw is the whole "password" bit, though I think this is a flaw
with Facebook's solutions as well.  For people that use Facebook a lot, and
also start connecting to other websites using Facebook Connect, the
potential for phishing seems very high -- If I'm not already logged-in to my
Facebook account, and I try to "Connect" using Facebook, I'm asked for my
Facebook email address/password.  This is not good.  In the future, once
Facebook Connect becomes very familiar to people, it will be easy to phish
this type of thing (on my popup window for facebook, the URL is "
http://www.connect.facebook.com/lo...", the rest of which is cut-off). Most
people won't bother to look and see what the rest of the URL says (it could
be http://www.connect.facebook.com.lookout.com").

I think your UI workflow will have the same problems as Facebook Connect.
So, is there a way to utliize the workflow you propose, but if the user
isn't logged-in to their OP, then take them to their OP's login page
(which would involve a redirect). I know it's not an ideal "flow", but my
feeling
is that Facebook's connect popup (or Open Connect's popup) will be easily
phishable in its current form that asks for a password to be entered.

Overall, though, I think your flow is pretty cool!

David

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Sebastian <pixelsebi at me.com> wrote:

> Hi UX list,
>
> I have created a few mockups over the weekend to illustrate a UX
> proposal, which just adapts the Facebook Connect design-pattern for
> the OpenStack:
>
>
> http://pixelsebi.com/2008-12-14/open-connect-a-ux-proposal-for-the-openstack/
>
> Looking forward to get your feedback!
>
> Best Regards,
> Sebastian
>
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