Here’s a short screencast demo of our new Lazy Registration system on the Madgex Job Board Platform. If you’ve read Luke Wrobleski’s book or ALA article ‘Sign up forms must die‘, this will probably be familiar territory, but if you’re not 100% up to speed with the concept of Lazy Reg, you might find this interesting.
Oh, and bear in mind the website (bigworkbag.com) used in the demo is for demo purposes only. The jobs are all fictional.
This is an excellent demo of Lazy Registration. I am all for only gathering information from users when there is value for them to provide it, and this a superb example of how to get them using a service without scaring them away right up front. Thanks.
Thanks Simon
There’s also quite a good Lazy Reg article on the ajax design patterns site.
thanks for this! demonstrates things in a clear way, and i particularly liked the last 2 slides with the summary of the carrot and stick method
Great UX but there is one thing to keep in mind:
Better UX causes worse security.
In this case it is very easy to push your job to everybody’s email. (recruiters tend to collect information for years so I can totally see some one pushing his job offer to everybody he knows by email)
@Simon and @Lara thanks! I may be doing another screencast soon…
@SR I’m not sure I completely follow your points. If a job board started sending out unsolicited emails to every user in their database, they would get themselves into deep trouble.
I guess what I mean is say I am a recruiter and I have bob@companya.com and bob100@companyz.com …. (1000 emails) on my client list.
I can just post every job offer that I have to their workbag simply entering their email. Don’t know they are registered or not yet but sometime when any of them comes to your site they will have all my job openings sitting in their bags hot and ready .
My be I misunderstood the web site idea but generally speaking by simply knowing somebody’s email I can start sending spam to his bag.
Excellent job. Very nice demo on implementing lazy registration. I agree with @Lara; I like the carrot and stick summary at the end. Cheers!
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How about my favourite lazy registration system – Tripit.com. It’s so lazy there isn’t even a form to fill in! You just forward any plane/hotel/whatever booking confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com and it creates you an account with a personalised itinerary. Genius if you ask me!
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Hey Pete,
I checked out Tripit, but I didn’t see that fxnality right away. They’re still pushing really hard to get people to sign up the “old skool” way :/
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I always end up signing in to places with BugMeNot; sites like these are doing it the right way.
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Yeah, they also have gmail connect and facebook connect too now to help people from having multiple accounts.
I feel it’s unsafe. I’d rather sign up with 1 account for every account or website.
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Thanks for the great Post.
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You should check out posterous.com. From memory the signup process really surprised as to how lazy it was.
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At Soup.io (tumblelogging/lifestreaming) we have one of those as well: You can try out the whole app, even add friends and react to posts by others without signing up — but until you do, your content lives at try.soup.io instead of yourname.soup.io, and is thus invisible for the rest of the world.
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The Registration should be both lazy and sturdy (secured).
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popurls does it similar to netvibes – store the settings in a cookie and transfer it if you actually sign in with any existing id on http://popurls.net/user
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Hey Glen, great research. You helped me answer a question I’ve been pondering for a while. Thanks
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> Why should you have to register at all for a one-time usage site (like kayak).
I use kayak ALL the time
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Another example of registration-less registration (like TripIt) is Posterous http://posterous.com/ which again works via email with no form to fill in – yay!
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Smart post, maybe too many examples though they do prove your point. Thanks!
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Nice set of examples.
Easy Job Boards (http://www.easyjobboards.com/) lets you create a job board by only requiring a name for the board.
Perfect for when you just want to try it out.
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Usability benefits the business’ service by benefiting their visitors. Everyone’s better off with quality design!
Thanks for the tips. -Glenn
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