The account
The shortest phase with the longest tail. Three or four fields, none of them difficult, and every one of them fixes something you will be living with for as long as the account exists.
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What actually happens in this phase
A registration form appears. It asks for a name to be known by, a password, usually a confirmation of that password, and often a separate short code or pin used for actions inside the account. There may be a puzzle attached. There is generally no email field, and if there is one, it is not doing what an email field does on an ordinary site.
You fill it in and something is created. From this moment forward the session has state. You can close the browser and there is now a thing that persists, which was not true five minutes ago.
That transition is the important part of the phase and it goes almost unnoticed, because it is disguised as a form. Everything before minute 25 could be abandoned with no trace. Everything after it belongs to an account that exists whether you come back or not.
The four pages here
Why a short form takes fifteen minutes
Not because it is hard. Because the fields have no obvious right answer and there is nobody to ask.
A name field with no rules attached invites an enormous amount of thought. A password field, in a place where you have just been reading about care, invites the same. And the absence of the usual furniture makes people nervous. There is no recover by email link and no support address, so the ordinary safety net of being able to fix a mistake later is simply not there. That absence is real, and it is why the phase after this one exists.
People stall on the name. It is the first field, it feels like it defines something, and it has no constraints to push against. Ten minutes disappear into a box that wanted eight characters that mean nothing.
The second stall is a password chosen to be memorable, which in this context is a decision to use a weak one, made in the belief that being unable to recover the account means you must be able to remember the password. That reasoning is understandable and it is exactly backwards.
The third is a partially filled form left open while somebody goes to think about it. Sessions expire, puzzles expire, and coming back to a dead form after ten minutes of deliberation means starting again in a worse mood.
The typing is trivial. The whole spread is hesitation on two fields, and both have a decent default answer set out in the pages here.
What you should have leaving this phase
- An account that exists, with a name unconnected to anything else you use.
- A password recorded somewhere outside your head, before you go any further.
- A clear idea of what the second code or pin is for, because it is not a second password and it is not used at the same moments.
That middle one is the bridge into minute 35, which is the phase people skip and the phase that decides whether a bad day later is recoverable. Do not leave this phase without at least knowing where the next one is going to write things down.
Three minutes of typing, and the first point in the run where something exists that outlives the session. The delays here are all hesitation, not difficulty.
Questions that come up here
Is an email address needed?
Usually not, and a form that does not ask for one is behaving normally here. If a field is offered, consider what it would be used for and whether you want a link between this and anything else.
Can I change the name later?
Assume not. Treat everything on this form as fixed once submitted, which is a good reason to spend one minute on it rather than ten.