<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John and I were recently deeply moved by Luke W’s long form article on showing passwords by default.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1941" class="">http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1941</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ee4kkq52i2ve4rd/two-options.png?dl=0" class="">https://www.dropbox.com/s/ee4kkq52i2ve4rd/two-options.png?dl=0</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The left shows the default state (on) and the right shows the unchecked state.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Make sense?</div><br class=""><div class="">
<div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Ryan Feeley</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">UX, Cloud Services</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Mozilla UX</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">IRC: rfeeley</div></div>
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