<div dir="ltr">Everything Ryan says is correct, except I strenuously object to being described as "deeply moved" by this article. Let's go with "interested".<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Ryan Feeley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfeeley@mozilla.com" target="_blank">rfeeley@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>John and I were recently deeply moved by Luke W’s long form article on showing passwords by default.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1941" target="_blank">http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1941</a></div><div><br></div><div>TL;DR – when users understand their passwords are being shown before they start typing, they are okay with it, and it helps them sign in with much higher success.</div><div><br></div><div>Now that we are tracking the success rate of our forms that require passwords, and also (soon?) tracking the usage of the Show password control, I would like to propose that we run an experiment to show the password by default with this design.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ee4kkq52i2ve4rd/two-options.png?dl=0" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/ee4kkq52i2ve4rd/two-options.png?dl=0</a></div><div><br></div><div>The left shows the default state (on) and the right shows the unchecked state.</div><div><br></div><div>Make sense?</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><div>
<div><div>Ryan Feeley</div><div>UX, Cloud Services</div><div>Mozilla UX</div><div>IRC: rfeeley</div></div>
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