Comments on: Design in the Wild: Get Satisfaction’s Social Onboarding Process

By: Pleasure and Pain — Yahoo!’s Shine

Pleasure and Pain — Yahoo!’s Shine — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:54:20 +0000

[...] Despite my obvious lack of enthusiasm for the subject matter, I think this is a great case study for heavily content-focused sites that need to attract and retain readership. I’ll definitely be referring to it in the future when discussing “onboarding” functionality. Read another cool example of onboarding at Alex Rainert’s Everyday UX. [...]

By: Eric Suesz

Eric Suesz — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:47:23 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, and thanks to others for the critical voices. Whitney, we would love to hear your opinions about how to improve our sign-on process. Please join us if you have the time: http://getsatisfaction.com/satisfaction.

By: arainert

arainert — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:09:09 +0000

I just got my Toluu invite so if I get any I’ll send one your way, Tom.

By: Design in the Wild: Get Satisfaction’s Social Onboarding Process | Satisfaction

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:57:20 +0000

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By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:56:32 +0000

Toluu is using a similar approach to the cold-start dilemma. Definitely very convenient, although I didn’t have an invite and couldn’t follow the process through to the end.

By: Whitney Hess

Whitney Hess — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:52:57 +0000

I think this is the kind of on-boarding OpenID had in mind, but their sign-in flow is so convoluted that it’s virtually unusable.