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The HIG can upgrade that message slightly: title: Your session is about to end. text below: You’ve been inactive for a while. For your security, we’ll automat
by fwlr 4y ago
The HIG can upgrade that message slightly:
title: Your session is about to end.
text below: You’ve been inactive for a while. For your security, we’ll automatically sign you out in approximately 1 minute.
action button: Stay signed in
action button: Sign out
Maybe the text could be reworded a bit. “Automatically” is redundant, everyone knows websites are automatic. “About” can do the work of “approximately”. I like how friendly they are when telling you the time limit but it may not be necessary to give a time at all. So you end up with: “For your security, we sign out sessions that have been inactive for a while.”
- zachrip 4y agoDoes everyone actually know what a "session" is? That word must be so confusing to some people.
- fwlr 4y agoYeah, it probably is confusing to some. You might be able to skip the title entirely.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoIsn't it used the same way in English? When you go to a therapist, you have a therapy session. When some musicians get together, they may have a jam session. The technical meaning is very similar to the non-technical one.
- alpaca128 4y agoI agree it's similar, though there's one difference: on many websites a session can have an arbitrary duration. If you log in to Google or Amazon once you can stay logged in on that device for months.
- marcosdumay 4y agoI'm not sure. Everyone learns it quite quickly after they are logged-out, but I don't think people know beforehand. It's certainly not an issue for returning users. But I don't know how to improve it for first time visitors either ("logout" has the same problem).
- wging 4y agoIt seems inferrable, at least in broad strokes, from the other, non-technical meanings of the word. See for example "the court is now in session" or "I had a physical therapy session this morning".