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Today we are rolling out a new sign-in experience for Windows Live sites like Live.com, Ideas, Mail, Expo, Favorites and Custom Domains. This is the next step in our Windows Live ID deployment.
When our team first started working on Windows Live ID, we were really excited because it gave us an opportunity to rethink the sign-in experience. In the past, signing in has been cumbersome for users. The user knows that they are who they say they are, but they have to prove it by remembering an ID and password and typing them in. When you have a service that operates at such large scale as Windows Live ID, delaying users even a few seconds with a poor experience can result in a net loss of thousands of hours wasted across the world per year. We take the responsibility to deliver a good sign-in experience very seriously.
You can see the following improvements to the Windows Live sign-in experience today:
Clean and simple: The first thing you may notice about the Windows Live sign-in page is that it is a very clean, simple experience. Our goal here was to strip any non-essential information off the page so that there is nothing to distract users from the process of signing in.
Consistent: We had a great opportunity to do this with Windows Live because Windows Live web sites have a common look and feel. The page will have the same clean format no matter what Windows Live site you visit.
Fast: Another advantage of the clean, simple experience is that it is very fast. Our goal is to get you through this page as fast as possible, so you can get on with your life and read your e-mail
. We’ve measured the page load time to be reduced by more than 50%!Finally, you don’t need to sign up for a new account to sign in to Windows Live sites. You can use your existing Hotmail, MSN, or Passport account.
This new sign-in UI you'll see today isn't the last thing you'll see from the Windows Live ID team -- more innovative features are coming! Next week we’ll have more information from more members of our team on how the sign-in UI was implemented as well as more exciting features you’ll see in the coming months in the sign-in experience for Windows Live.
- Lynn Ayres, Mark Wong, Trevin Chow, Erren Lester, Brian Perrin and Brian Kramp
View:login.live.com
Source:Windows Live Id Blog
Edited by atsaunier, 30 April 2006 - 02:10 AM.
