Google Account login over the years
Posted: October 7th, 2009 | Author: Adrian | Filed under: Good practices, Patterns | Tags: account, call to action, google, login | No Comments »A login account sounds simple but it’s not. I’ve been watching Google Account login form for a while and saw the changes they made over time. A login form has to accomplish several things:
– get the registered clients into the system fast
– make unregistered users to register
– convert a visitor into a user
– provide a way to recover an account
In time, the priority of those things changes, ie: at the beginning of a startup you want more new users, the register process must be the first thing a visitor sees in the page, after a while and a solid client base you want those clients to login fast and without issues.
Let’s see some of Google’s login forms now:
Size of the font and spacing changed for better focus on the link.
Here come the blue buttons. Call to action all the way. Unfortunately, I personally had problems logging in, I pressed the “new account” button instead of “login” multiple times. Wasn’t very happy with those. The naming on the button changed a lot, “get started”, “pick a name” or simply “new account”
The next one is the one i can see today on my browser, it really doesn’t have a actual call-to-action button, just a size priority. It’s better.
Note: I’m more than sure it depends on the OS/BROWSER/GOOGLE SERVICE etc.