Funny that Bagcheck is listed as a "good" example.
I was just commenting to someone as to how confusing that site is. There's a box next to the "JOIN" / "SIGN IN" words in the upper right, that is positioned next to those words (as if those words are the label for the text box).
So you start to key in your name, to join, and a bunch of choices are displayed. If you select one (even your own), you are whisked away to another page that isn't even the join / sign in part of the site. You are no closer to being signed in than you were before. And actually further than if you had clicked on the label for the text box that says "sign in" (which is actually a button or a link, although not identified as such, unless you happen to mouse over it).
Ends up the "join / sign in" text box is actually a SEARCH text box.
yeah, real simplified. Put the word "search" in there. geesh.
Actually it's worse than that. You're not happy with the fact that the Search input is too close to the "Sign in" text.
But the "Sign in" page asks you to type your name and then be offered the "sign in with…" option you used when joining.
So, the only thing it does is removing one button. (Twitter or Facebook) At this point, you still have to enter your login information for Facebook or Twitter.
A better solution IMO is to present directly "Sign in with Twitter" and "Sign in with Facebook". One thing you might be worried about is people who first joined with one and try to sign in with the other: does that create a new separate account? Do you put a warning? etc. But you can curb that by keeping a cookie of the sign-in method used and present that one with an option to see the other options. That's what RPXNow is doing IIRC (https://rpxnow.com/).
I was just commenting to someone as to how confusing that site is. There's a box next to the "JOIN" / "SIGN IN" words in the upper right, that is positioned next to those words (as if those words are the label for the text box).
So you start to key in your name, to join, and a bunch of choices are displayed. If you select one (even your own), you are whisked away to another page that isn't even the join / sign in part of the site. You are no closer to being signed in than you were before. And actually further than if you had clicked on the label for the text box that says "sign in" (which is actually a button or a link, although not identified as such, unless you happen to mouse over it).
Ends up the "join / sign in" text box is actually a SEARCH text box.
yeah, real simplified. Put the word "search" in there. geesh.