UI Designers, Don’t Be Like Appcelerator

The login form is a pretty basic and standard aspect of UI design. At the very least, two form fields and a submit button are all you need: username, password and submit. Sometime in the 1990′s, we gave Internet users the ability to save their session by storing a cookie on their computer when they [...]

The login form is a pretty basic and standard aspect of UI design.

At the very least, two form fields and a submit button are all you need: username, password and submit.

Sometime in the 1990′s, we gave Internet users the ability to save their session by storing a cookie on their computer when they click a little “remember me” checkbox near their password field.

This has been pretty standard practice for 20-ish years.

Leave it to Appcelerator (whom Tanner has scolded for other, unrelated reasons) to throw all precedent away by replacing standard “remember me” checkbox with a “reset password” checkbox.

Basically, replacing a standard aspect of login boxes with something that does the exact opposite.

Don’t do this. Stick to standards with your own twist.

PS: I consider “standard location” for a password reset function to be a link placed below the submit button.

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