Comments on: Confirm your typo

By: Russ Unger

Russ Unger — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:53:57 +0000

@Catherine Great feedback, but that type of feedback is exactly why we created the prototypes. People speculate about success or failure of a method, but not much is being tried. We know of at least 1 of the methods being implemented and a couple of others being planned for. And that's a great first step--the trying something new. We won't know if it succeeds or fails unless we try, and from what I can tell it's a bit difficult to see if what's being done today is all that successful given that some people may simply copy/paste their email address--something we don't know about, either. We'd definitely like some feedback as to what you think might work--we're open to trying new ideas and experimenting with them.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:24:21 +0000

I think you have to ask people to re-type their email address as if they are simply checking it in a lot of instances they are likely to see what they think they should be seeing rather than what's actually there. Given that 60% of people can easily make sense/read text that has letters transposed I personally don't think the check we've got the right email approach will work.

By: Jan Srutek

Jan Srutek — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:42:56 +0000

Hello, I'm glad you liked the post.
Elizabeth, Russ, great seeing you here, and thank you for pointing out that I missed out Jonathan initially. I have updated the post to reflect his contribution to the prototype.
Please accept my apologies Jonathan.
Thank you.

By: Russ Unger

Russ Unger — Mon, 31 May 2010 16:42:15 +0000

Hi there!

Great article! As Elizabeth mentions above, could you please make sure to include Yoni (Jonathan Knoll)? This work wouldn't have been done the right/best way without him, and we both collaborated on the effort.

Thanks!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Fri, 28 May 2010 11:37:19 +0000

Thanks for the links to these various solutions -- much food for thought! Please note, however, that the one about repeating key details is the work not only of Russ Unger but also of Jonathan Knoll. I hope you will revise this post to mention him as well.