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Really the dumbest, most confusing design I've ever seen to make a website seem like it knows who you are when you visit as a guest. When I first saw it on Pin
by hombre_fatal 6y ago
Really the dumbest, most confusing design I've ever seen to make a website seem like it knows who you are when you visit as a guest.
When I first saw it on Pinterest, it took me a moment to figure out what I was looking at as a web developer of 20 years. My girlfriend still didn't get it after I was explaining it to her. How does anyone else have a shot at arriving at "oh, so the site doesn't actually have access to this information that's being displayed on the site."
When I was younger, I thought good UX design was obvious, something all of us had intuition for as users ourselves. All you do is put yourself in the user's shoes and ask basic questions and use basic empathy. Of course, now being in software for so long, I realize it's one of the rarest and most unrecognized skills.
- bonoboTP 6y agoIf you empathize with normal users, you realize they don't care the least about any of this. They want to use a convenient service to do things. To post pictures of themselves, to see what their friends and frenemies are up to, what's the new cool thing etc etc. Login should just work, nobody cares what is displayed where, and which site knows what. Normal people (outside the HN) bubble don't care about these things, like privacy and what data they share. It doesn't get them closer to the things they want to do online, that is post things and consume content.
- hackmiester 6y agoThe problem is that it doesn’t really work, because if next time they somehow log in with their email/Twitter/Facebook/Apple ID instead, it will make a new, totally unrelated account, and all their stuff will be mysteriously gone for no apparent reason.