Comment on LinkedIn homepage swaps the "sign in" and "create account" buttons depending on whether you're a new or returning visitor

Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Tanoh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Colored button stands out more than white.

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes, I know that. How does that explain this?

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    • jwt@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My guess is they want the primary button to always be on the right side. For a first time visitor that primary action is always to create an account. If the user is a return visitor, they assume the user already has an account and so they want the primary action to be to login to that account.

      I take it some UX-er got paid handsomely, but I think all it does is confuse people. As someone suggested already, I’d just go for login/register and make login primary (since you only register once, and login maybe hundreds of times after that)

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      • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Okay, yeah, what confuses me most is why they used different labels. If I had to take a guess (gun to my head), I’d say one is an earlier version that got stuck in some cache somewhere.

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