[IxDA Discuss] Placement of username and password on homepage

[Melinda Bonneville]

I recently attended an HFI class and was pointed to a piece of
research called, "Examining User Expectations of the Location of Web
Objects".  The study reported that users generally expected the Login
element of e-commerce sites to be located in the upper-left corner of
the page just after the logo.  The study was publish in 2002, but
seems to hold water.  Look at Amazon and other big e-commerce sites.

I don't think this is the whole study...

http://www.internettg.org/newsletter/dec00/article_bernard.html
http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/62/web_object_international.htm

The presentation...
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/hfes/hfproc/2003/00000047/00000011/art00008

I hope you find this helpful.



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