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.
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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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Thanks for the tips. -Glenn
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Interesting concept.
I’ve watched the video up to the point where you mention the user tries to login after being soft-registered by the system.
A password field is presented, which is initially filled in. You then typed something in – what would this be, if you’ve never entered it before on the site?
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@Shane, you’ve noticed a glitch in the video – I really should have re-recorded it without that in it. In a normal situation, when using the site afresh, that would not happen.
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