Last night I was going to visit the Technorati site so manage some blogs I have registered over there. It was a first time login with the new laptop, and in the old I had stored the password in Firefox password manager. Hence I tried a password being unsure if it was the correct one.

After typing in username and password I clicked on the login button (incidentally, the login’s embedded flow is very nice) - or sign in, as they call it at Technorati - and I got this screen:

Did you get perplexed? I certainly did! My first reaction was plain puzzled at the sight of a join form. After recovering my wits though, I begun scanning the page form something that made sense, and after a much longer while that I wish to remember, I saw this:

Now, the key system feedback was really hard to find ,and I cannot imagine the reason why it should be so hidden. I won’t suggest improvements to the UI, but I wanted to share this “complaint”: all in all, I’d say Technorati fails on login failure

Tags: Bad Experiences, Usability, Web