This is totally ridiculous. So whenever my colleagues or students are working with me on something and I have login to my email or whatever system I need to get to, it's not bad enough that I have to feel uncomfortable that they can see my keyboard while I type my password but they can just look at it on the screen. I guess this is what happens when you actually let "usability experts" design your systems.
As for this "checkbox," how many users will unwittingly have their online identity stolen because regular users aren't thinking about whether they need to select some checkbox before they type in their passsword. Also, that seems more annoying than more usable.
As someone else mentioend, this makes "remember password" totally unworkable; though personally I don't like that feature either.
There is a difficulty in mobile devices but that is because typing on such devices is not really great in terms of usability.
The other thing is that I don't think there is much evidence that this is really a problem. The only "barrier" problem that people have observed is having to create an account in the first place, but that is a separate issue.
As for this "checkbox," how many users will unwittingly have their online identity stolen because regular users aren't thinking about whether they need to select some checkbox before they type in their passsword. Also, that seems more annoying than more usable.
As someone else mentioend, this makes "remember password" totally unworkable; though personally I don't like that feature either.
There is a difficulty in mobile devices but that is because typing on such devices is not really great in terms of usability.
The other thing is that I don't think there is much evidence that this is really a problem. The only "barrier" problem that people have observed is having to create an account in the first place, but that is a separate issue.