<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>Looking at my screenshot collection, I’ve noticed that Google has been moving very rapidly to a single web-based login experience. This is likely due to the fact that they are continually adding security features (e.g. two factor auth, backup codes, etc) which cannot be feasibly maintained in multiple interfaces.</div><div><br></div><div>Here’s a recent screenshot:</div><div><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/qndjqafrwkqq6k5/google-desktop.png">https://www.dropbox.com/s/qndjqafrwkqq6k5/google-desktop.png</a></div><div><br></div><div>I logged into a guest account on my machine and then googled for site:accounts.google.com</div><div><br></div><div>I quickly was able to find the login screen customized for over two dozen properties. Pretty neat. I the last one in the list is the text for managing the accounts.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans" style="font-size: 36px;">One account. All of Google.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to AdMob</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Blogger</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Gmail</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Google Alerts</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Google Calendar</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Google Cloud Print</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Google Display Network Ad Planner</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Google FeedBurner</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Google Finance</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Google Knowledge Search</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Google Map Maker</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Google Maps</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Google Merchant Center</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Google Play Developer Console</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Google Play Music</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Google Scholar Citations</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Google Sites</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Google Translator Toolkit</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Google Trends</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Google Voice</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Google+</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to iGoogle</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to Picasa Web Albums</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in to continue to YouTube</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Open Sans">Sign in with your Google Account</font></div></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">I was moving in this direction already, but interesting to see it applied so broadly.</div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><br></div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">I imagine that if Apple wanted to add security features to their login system, they’d be unable to. Their login screen appears in dozens if not hundreds of places (different devices, platforms, desktop software, etc.).</div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><br></div><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Ryan Feeley</div><div>Product Designer, Identity</div><div>Mozilla UX</div><div>IRC: rfeeley</div></div>
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