Here are some improvements to the Hive Signer Dapp that will greatly improve the user experience of our new users on @threespeak.
@good-karma the new owner of Hive Signer, has kindly approached me to ask for some comments on how to improve the front end. I hope that these comments below help.
The Hive Signer, although a great addition to the security of our Dapp at 3Speak, is an incredibly confusing bottleneck for new users who sign up for the first time to use 3Speak.online. Often these users are not Hiveans and in most cases, and once they encounter Hive Signer, they decide not to continue their sign up process since it is so confusing.
For example, the signer page does not specify which key (active or Post) it needs. of course on Hive, we know that it needs the active key on the first log in, in order to give posting authority to the Dapp, and then every subsequent log in after this needs the posting key to log in.
For new Hive / '3Speak users, this is far too confusing and complicated, especially when the front end does not specify which key to use.
Unfortunately, even though Hive signer is a great security feature and something that we on 3Speak absolutely must have, since it allows us to use 0Auth2 logins. 0Auth2 is highly important to us since it allows users who don't have a Hive account to log in to use our dapp, and earn Hive / SMTs via their comments using our proxy commenting system! A great way to give people access to the blockchain without them having to go through a paid / complicated sign up experience.
Hive Signer is made up of three main pages:
- Where the dapp requests access to your posting authority
- Log in page
- Confirmation of giving your posting authority to the dapp with you are logging into.
This results in a multiple click log in process and combined with new users just having saved their posting, active, memo, master and owner keys, means by the time the users get to Hive signer, they are already slightly frustrated.
screens 1 and 3 can easily be combined into screen 2. I have detailed below some notes on how this can be achieved in one to three clicks on screen 2) instead of multiple clicks on 3 different screens:
