Comments on: OpenID usability http://philwilson.org/blog/2008/10/openid-usability a geek commodity Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:42:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: PeteJ http://philwilson.org/blog/2008/10/openid-usability/comment-page-1#comment-1349 PeteJ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:30:32 +0000 http://philwilson.org/blog/2008/10/openid-usability#comment-1349 I think the Blogger/Google and Flickr/Yahoo experiences are slightly different because the user experiences it as staying on one Web site (more or less in the second case - they still see a Flickr "house style" and logo on the Yahoo/Flickr login page, rather than logging in on a page with a quite different look/feel). I think the Paypal experience is maybe closer to the OpenID one? Having said that, I tend to agree with your point that this doesn't seem like the major usability challenge for OpenID. I think the Blogger/Google and Flickr/Yahoo experiences are slightly different because the user experiences it as staying on one Web site (more or less in the second case – they still see a Flickr “house style” and logo on the Yahoo/Flickr login page, rather than logging in on a page with a quite different look/feel).

I think the Paypal experience is maybe closer to the OpenID one?

Having said that, I tend to agree with your point that this doesn’t seem like the major usability challenge for OpenID.

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