April 30th, 2008
Get Satisfaction’s Nice Import Profile Feature
by Joshua Porter | 
5 Comments
Noticed a nicely-designed element on the Get Satisfaction signup form today.
While creating a new profile, Get Satisfaction asks you if you happen to belong to one of a few sites that serve up hCards. (they may be using an API as well) If you do belong to one of the sites, simply enter your username and getsatisfaction will pull down your hCard and pre-populate your new profile with the information. Nice and simple.
They’ve done several things well with the design, which I’ve annotated in Skitch…
Very nice interface element. Well done!
Know of any other well-executed identity-related interface elements?
REALLY nicely done, in fact. Though in the screenshot above it looks like you’d have to do an action below the form to get the form’s label to change (and that looks a little off in static form), it’s important to note that the form field doesn’t actually appear until after a service is selected. At that point, going down below to change services is a naturally understood step.
You point out its strengths beautifully.
Great observation(s)!
I love this. For me Get Satisfaction is one of the classiest services out there.
Considering the nature of the service, it seems they are ahead of the game on customer satisfaction.
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