Design for Sign-up
If there is one problem that plagues all web applications, it’s the problem of getting people to sign-up. No matter what you’re building, you need people to identify themselves in some way so that you can provide them with a personalized, valuable web experience.
Don’t let sign-up be your Achilles heel. In this presentation, Porter will share successful strategies that get you over the hurdle of sign-up, from clever sign-up hacks to techniques that increase motivation to even removing sign-up completely. By using one or more of these strategies, you too can get people started off on the right foot using your software.
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Good content - well balanced between intro to the concept and real world examples of what works. My marketing team should have been there!
very informative, left w/lots of actionable items to do based on real world examples;
great speaker
One of the best talks at the conference! What I really liked is that it had specific examples and tips - instead of unusable generalizations like most of the other talks. Joshua Porter is a wonderful, insightful speaker. Very happy I attended this.
Josh gave a flawless presentation, he's an amazing speaker, and spent more time than anyone else answering questions after the session ended. The material was highly valuable (though still not online her yet). You wouldn't have had to be a UX designer to get your inner passion for forms stirred up. Lively, informative, and touched on how users feel about providing information in an age where we're on overload and have trust issues with websites.
Where can I find some of the sites Josh refereed to that did things well?
Best presentation I saw during the show. The material was well organized and critically important. Great job!
Josh was a funny presenter, but he seemed to criticize a lot of issues without explaining WHY he was critical. A lot of Web 2.0 strategists sometimes miss the "why." He definitely made some valid points, though.
I'd highly recommend the book "Web Form Design" by Luke Wroblewski for anyone interested in user experience and sign-up.
I attended this one on a whim and found it informative and interesting. I can see how the subject matter might be dreary to some, but to someone who has, at times, metaphorically lived and died by the sign-up it was fascinating.
Not as many solutions and you-should-do-this moments as I'd have liked, but a good talk nonetheless. Good job.
Great speaker with great material. I really enjoyed his approach and learned a lot.
Great presenter, couldn't write fast enough to take all the notes I needed. Had to leave before giving him my card to get the presentation and it's not yet posted here... will it be?
This session was awesome and provided the design details I was looking for!