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-- What is an MIT ID? The number on your MIT card or your Kerberos username? (See https://mv-ezproxy-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/fcgi-bin/ca^{Image Removed} ) How would a visitor know that?

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-- This is supposed to be a universal login process across all Institute systems. It should be MIT branded but generic enough to be useful when logging in to Stellar, TechTime or WebMail or SloanSpace or DSpace or any other site. Use a simple white and gray background with touches of MIT red (see http://web.mit.edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/graphicidentity/colors/index.html^{Image Removed} for the styles) and make the logos stronger. The Easter egg colors make no sense.

-- I suggest adding the MIT website banner at the top of the login pages (see example here: http://web.mit.edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/newsoffice/contact.html^{Image Removed} or here http://calendar.mit.edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/techtime/index.shtml^{Image Removed}). This banner provides a link back to the MIT homepage and changes color to match it, thereby tying the whole together into a clear identity. The News Office pages are also a very good example of the subtle use of MIT colors.

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It seems that we are asking users to self-identify according to categories which are set by us and meaningful to us. All the users want to do is get to a page via a link that they clicked on. This page is a barrier, both visually and functionally, as it stops the user's progress through the MIT experience dead in its tracks. It needs to be an interchange, like on a highway, with clear road signs. Rather than asking users to provide information according to our needs, why don't we try to see the matter from the users' perspective and anticipate what would be meaningful to them? Then we can use labels and text in a way that leads them in the direction of doing the correct thing without forcing them to stop and ponder.

Sample images of the evolution of the UI#web-authentication-sample-ui