Top screenshot is from a regular instance of Firefox where I’m returning to LinkedIn after having signed out before. Bottom screenshot is from a private browsing session -- no cookies saved, so I guess I look like a new user to them.
The frustration emerged when I didn’t realize I was in a private browsing session and clicked the big blue button to sign in.
The big blue button on the right is apparently not always the “sign in” button. It is the “this is the button we want you to click” button.
Related to that, what’s up with labeling the buttons “Sign in”/“Sign up” instead of a less ambiguous “Login”/“Register”? (Looking at you, Github)
(My native language is not English, and I always confuse the two 🤷)
Sign down
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign. Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind.
“Do this” “Don’t do that” Can’t you read the sign?
Ugh, my bank does this. But they fucked up so bad, it’s on the client side and so slow that the page loads, and I go to click the login button, and then it moves out from under my cursor and I click the register button.
I don’t know who decided this was a thing people wanted, but they should have their UX license taken away…
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But why? I honestly can’t think of a reason to do this deliberately? Must be some fuck up somewhere?
Colored button stands out more than white.
Yes, I know that. How does that explain this?
My guess is they want the primary button to always be on the right side. For a first time visitor that primary action is always to create an account. If the user is a return visitor, they assume the user already has an account and so they want the primary action to be to login to that account.
I take it some UX-er got paid handsomely, but I think all it does is confuse people. As someone suggested already, I’d just go for login/register and make login primary (since you only register once, and login maybe hundreds of times after that)
Okay, yeah, what confuses me most is why they used different labels. If I had to take a guess (gun to my head), I’d say one is an earlier version that got stuck in some cache somewhere.
