IIW2006b - Day Three Wrapup 0
Day three of the Internet Identity Workshop didn't disappoint. Again I attended all OpenID-related sessions, two of the three related to user experience issues. We came to some good consensus around what the issues are, along with some recommendations. We also agreed that there should be a document listing UI guidelines for sites that support OpenID Authentication, but that the guidelines should not specify things down to the level of positioning, layout, typography, etc.
The final session of the day for me was a great one with Joseph Smarr of Plaxo and Weston Triemstra of Sxip, where we discussed some of the finer points of integrating OpenID support into a site that already has a user database. This included both simple UI issues like "what does an OpenID-enabled login screen look like", as well as more complicated issues like "how do my existing users attach their OpenID identifier(s) to their existing user account". Joseph and Weston are two very smart guys and hopefully they will stay engaged in the OpenID community to help produce the guidelines I mentioned above.
Overall, I really enjoyed IIW2006b- I've (hopefully) injected myself into the OpenID process a bit (at least, the user experience part of it), and I hope to make Lingr one of the early case studies for adding OpenID support to an existing site.
Stay tuned…
