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http://browser.aireohq.com

The greatest bookmark tool Instapaper !

http://www.instapaper.com/user/register

Just give your e-mail, or another e-mail, as you like.

“You can enter whatever you want here. We suggest your email address because it’s easy to remember.”

Simple, your e-mail is the center of this service, no password, it’s done.

I love it.

I always thought the login screen for Wakoopa is kinda nice: http://wakoopa.com/account

How about the login screens of Basecamp, Highrise, Campfire and Backpack that are being replicated across the internet?

Maybe I’m a bit biased here, but how about offering whatever read-only functionality you can, up front, with log-in ability from that page or upon action taken that needs a log-in?

The log-in screen seems to me only a tiny bit more advanced than a splash screen or skip intro movie.

Brightkite has a cute login screen that sports a nice picture of a log. Reminds of the old Ren and Stimpy song about Log.

http://brightkite.com/account/not_logged_in

I’ve always been partial to ‘sign in’ opposed to ‘login’; it just sounds a little more human. I’m guessing the log part of login has roots in the old nautical term for heaving a log to get the ship’s speed.

The vimeo background is related to video; I have watched a video of the progression of a illustration as the artists keeps adding more and more layers, that looks a lot like that. I can’t remember exactly where I saw this video but I know that’s where the inspiration for that background came from.

Looks great too.

Ours? ;) (sorry!)

http://weplaythis.com/login

Kindo has a nice login:

http://kindo.com/index.php/kindo/login/

Its simple but check out – lessmemories.com

Signup for LessMemories and maybe you’ll be able to remember what the hell it is.

Made me laugh.

I went to the Acrobat site the other day. I found all the buttons confusing. You’ve got to login first to do any of them, so there’s no need to hide the login screen behind each of them. Factor it out.

@Gilbert:

I think your screen is too cluttered. The dots clash with the dark text/boxes.

@Gilbert: I love it! The wonky illustration makes me think the site will be a lot of fun.

The Vimeo screen has a drive-in movie theater on its right side. I’m pretty sure that has something to do with video.

weplaythis has a login screen similar to vimeo: http://weplaythis.com/login

Great login screens, though I’m still recovering from the cancerous growths that popped up as soon as I heard the “MobileMe” name. I then experienced a shooting pain in my gut as soon as I saw the logo and got horrible flashbacks...

I mean, ‘cmon…surely Apple can do better than this.

I came in to post weplaythis, but weplaythis already posted weplaythis. Funny that.

just wanted to add to the weplaythis posts by saying weplaythis

Really guys? 4 links to the same site, with little other comment?

I think the login screen for text link ads is nicely laid out and pretty clean.

One question though, what’s up with the skewed browser interface in your MobileMe screenshot?

god only knows why they recycled the typography from Windows ME for Mobile Me.

http://www.miguelcarrasco.net/miguelcarrasco/WindowsLiveWriter/10BiggestComputerFlopsofalltime_9EEC/WindowsME4_3.jpg

http://images.apple.com/mobileme/images/productnav_title20080609.gif

@Derick nice find

We did something similar with Rocketship. Since it’s a website builder/CMS, the login screen has the username/password boxes and a semi-transparent mask layered over the top of the site’s homepage. It makes it feel like you’re logging into the site.

hulu.com actually does a very good job with their login. No page flip and it just works. Very nice! I love the fact that it remembers your login for a long time as well (not session based like the lame digg.com login)...

A lot of thought has been put into our Photobird login screen:

https://www.photobird.com/subscribe

Still, some things need to be updated:

- Larger text and fields
- Convert graphic headers to text
- Update the global nav

Cheers,

—Ed

P.S. If you like photos and photography, check out the Photobird blog: http://www.photobird.com/blog/ .

The Vimeo looks great to me. It is very pleasing to the eyes. On the other hand, the apple looks sophis.. For acrobat, i dont like so much because it is very manly and dark..makes me remember dracula!

Where do we submit our own screens/photos that we think are great innovations?

The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) website has an interesting login mechanism. It delegates authentication in a similar way to OpenID but using only an email address.