A real world NASCAR to keep in mind

[Chris Messina]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Dick Hardt <dick.hardt at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 2010-06-13, at 1:35 PM, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 13 June 2010 Chris Messina wrote:
> >> I'm sure you've all seen interfaces like this — on ATMs or at the
> >> airport... or in this case, in public transit systems:
> >>
> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/4696784269/
> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/4696784237/
> >>
> >> I think it's worth keeping this kind of UI in mind when we consider what
> >> the experience for OpenID may need to be like in the future (though
> >> perhaps less card-based and more mobile-device driven?).
> >
> > This looks very much like what we have come up with for our OpenID based
> login
> > in SUSE Studio after quite some iterations: http://susestudio.com/login
> >
> > It seems to work pretty well, so I can only agree with the notion that
> these
> > kind of interfaces are a good OpenID experience.
>
> I really, really hope that we move beyond the NASCAR approach. It
> solidifies the existing players which then have little motivation to
> innovate. What new features have credit card companies rolled out? Why don't
> I have a web API to my credit card information so that I can mix my purchase
> data with other data?


<flamebait class="ignore">And yet potential solutions like XAuth get shut
down because on the surface they appear too centralized. It's
ironic.</flamebait>

It's worth looking at implementations like the SuseStudio UI though... there
are some nice touches there. Too bad the "request invitation" option didn't
work off of WebFinger.

Another interesting model is Endor.se:

http://endor.se/signup

They require an email address but then use Twitter Connect to actually
validate and sign you in. Great example of what the *Connect UI might look
like.

Chris

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