A blog by Ben Gilman

We’re overhauling our login and registation process in work this month. It’s a little overdue a revisit so I’ve been trawling the world of Web 2.0 for some inspiration. I collected them together into a Flickr set:

Registration & Login @ Flickr

It’s a little bit of a random jaunt around some of the nicer (and not so nice) registration forms that the web has to offer.

My personal favourite has to be the Wordpress form - there’s something about some nice big form fields that almost compels you to fill them with your personal details with gay abandon - indeed, I think there might be a whole new angle for phishing sites - big fields = big likelihood of completion = big money. The lack of a captcha is always nice as well, it’s almost like a vision of the internet the way it would be in a perfect world - although maybe that’s a little unambitious.

I’ll update with where we get to with our new registration and login process, it should be far superior to our current one and hopefully approaching the smooth experience that some of the featured sites provide.