[thelist] user perception

[Scott Dexter]

--- Sarah Sweeney <mr.sanders at designshift.com> wrote:

> > What happens if you just blindly hit the "enter" key?
> 
> You get "logged in" as a guest and any content you submit has to be
> 
> approved.

k, just checking. Sometimes (had it happen) little things like that
cause lots of headaches :)

> 
> The problem is that if the login page isn't immediately present,
> most of 
> the content managers will just go ahead and submit documents and
> then be 
> confused when they see a message telling them the documents will
> need to 
> be approved. Actually, this already happens, though rarely.

If rarely, then it must be less than the frequency of confusion
you're dealing with now, right? Sounds like a good tradeoff to me :)

Also, you could move the login requirement to /after/ the submission,
allowing managers to login at that time to step around the approval
process. So as a guest, I see a message that tells me I can log in,
otherwise the content I just submitted is subject to review. If I'm a
manager, I login and poof! it's done. Whatcha think?


sgd