10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To
To fully appreciate the problem of registration, we should consider an annoyance that has led to the opinion that sign-up forms must die. This certainly doesn’t mean they should be completely omitted but rather that they should be only one part in the process of introducing users to a system, and should come late in the process.
Janko Jovanovic
A nice roundup of design patterns new and old. I’ve been glad to see lazy registration, described above, catching on more and more. It’s practically a religion at Stack Overflow.
If you want an example of the exact opposite of lazy registration, look no further than paid apps in the iPhone App Store. It’s a Buy Before You Try environment, and dropping cold, hard cash is the ultimate signup form — even with 1-Click™.
It’s little wonder app prices hit rock bottom even for complex, useful applications. And little wonder wonder we’ve had to optimize our entire design and development process for the screenshot come-on.