On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Jared Spool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I haven't seen anything formally published. However, here's what we've > found in our research at UIE: > > The problem you're trying to solve is mistyping email addresses. Depending > on the audience, context, and design, you can see typos in anywhere from > 0.75% to 5% of email addresses entered. (Even here at UIE, we have, on > average, 2 out of every 100 email addresses are entered incorrectly. These > are designers and developers with a lot of internet experience, so it's not > just a matter of sophistication.) Are these results for forms with 1 e-mail field or 2? > > > Several sites try solve the problem by asking for the email twice. The > thinking is that, if the user enters it the same twice, then it must be > correct. As people have discussed, that doesn't always happen because more > sophisticated users will use cut & paste, which will only propagate a typo > in the second field, making a false positive. > > I guess it could help to just test the two kinds of approaches head to head, in order to see if the numbers you show above for typing errors are improved at all by using the verification field? Sebi -- Sergiu Sebastian Tauciuc http://www.sergiutauciuc.ro/en/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
