Usability Thoughts » username http://usabilitythoughts.com content meets user Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:02:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Login with email vs. username http://usabilitythoughts.com/login-with-email-vs-username.html http://usabilitythoughts.com/login-with-email-vs-username.html#comments Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:27:42 +0000 Adrian http://usabilitythoughts.com/?p=15 Today we’ll discuss why is much better to ask the user to login with email/password instead of username/password. I’ll be short and punctual, i don’t like long blabbing articles the essence of which can be written in a line, so:

  1. The email address can’t be already registered (obviously), and if it is, you registered it and you can request a new password
  2. As a consequence of the above, the user can’t forget his email. You may be having what, 2-3 email addresses? You can’t forget them
  3. One less field on the register form. Everybody hates long forms
  4. You make the users use a real name, instead of s_87757 or pinkygirl1995 or other crap like that

If you think of something else, drop a line and i’ll add reasons.

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