Details
An event to discuss and work through user experience and design issues related to OpenID, and to work towards developing a series of guidelines for front end implementors of OpenID
Time & Location
Facebook, 164 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA
11:30AM-5:30PM PST
Listings: Facebook
Agenda
- 12:00-1:30: all speakers
- 1:30-2:30: lunch
- 2:30-4:30: breakout into two groups (OPs and RPs)
- 4:30-4:45: snack break
- 4:45-5:45: reconvene into a larger group, each small group presents the results of their discussion, and then larger group discussion.
- 5:45-6:00: closing, summary, whatever
The purpose of the first few speakers is to give a bunch of ideas and set the tone for the discussion.
Speakers
- Facebook (Julie Zhuo)– intro and framing
- Myspace (Max Engel) – user studies
- Janrain (Brian Ellin) – experience being a relying party
- Google - popup library
- Joseph Smarr – here’s openid, here’s oauth, here’s the data together. talk about google, yahoo, address book, other data
- Messina/DiSo - presenting work from the WordPress OpenID plugin (other contexts for OpenID)
Breakout groups
Obviously the groups can change depending on the whims of the room- this is not set in stone. But if we were to have three main groups of discussion, then David and I think this is the breakdown:
- Relying party. How does the user choose their provider? Discussion centers on button placement, typeahead vs. dropdown vs. input field, does the user know their url, do we use the OpenID logo, do we use browser sniffing tricks, etc.
- Perspective of provider. What goes in the popup? what goes in the main browser window? how much legalese do we need? How do we present lots of complicated choices, consistently, without blowing everyone’s mind?
Reconvene
After the breakouts, we reconvene to present findings from each group. The timing here is a question mark – if it’s going well, then perhaps we will continue with small groups for a while longer, and reconvene close to 5:15 or so.
Outcomes
Following the successful execution of the event, recommendations for OPs and RPs were written up:
There was also plenty of blog coverage:
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