To show or not to show [registered user only actions]
Last week I struggled with a design decision that really caught my attention. Consider this:
- You have a user driven app on the web.
- You also provide some actions for guests.
What you would do? Either:
- Don’t show the user only actions? (my opinion: this one reduces clutter on your interface).
- Or do show them and when the user clicks the links/buttons, the user gets a login redirected page for every new click?
My pick would be number 1. Why?
I’d rather have a welcome page that showed you what to use in case you signed up. Actions such as creating a new item on a product list and message sending that apparently require a sign up are confusing for a guest. Besides, clicking on such an action and redirecting you to a login page several times is not that much of an engaging experience.
Feel free to add up on this thought.
