Steven Walling and all,
I think that a solution could be to implement a box where user enters a username, and a big fat username preview appears near it. If it's different, a (i) message (or several) inform user of the changes.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mediawiki_registration_box_Name_diff...
Gryllida
----- Original message ----- From: Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org To: "A list for the design team." design@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Design] UX question about username choice on signup Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:52:48 -0800
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Isarra Yos zhorishna@gmail.com wrote:
That.
It's trivial stuff unless a user cares about it, but at which point it's the silently part that makes it really an issue. These are edge cases, but that doesn't make them not important too.
So figure out a solution that doesn't involve throwing an inactionable warning in the user's face and making them perform a confirmation step. The "solution" being proposed to the problem currently is worse than the current experience.