Making the login easy seems to be an obvious task. Apparently simple login processes are not always easy to find. I have written several articles about this topic because there are so many bad examples, I have to insists. Why login processes should be simple?

Users will be entering into your website services through the login process, this is a tedious task that nobody likes. But this could be worsen if you make the login process not easy to understand. Most of the cases it is enough if you ask for a login name and password, making the process as short as possible.

Movable Type makes users to waste their time, this is not the right usability approach. First, users have to click on "Customer Sign In". Then a totally unnecessary page is displayed, making users read some instructions. Another click and you get to the login page.

Now an example from a company that cares about usability, YouTube. They place the login in the homepage. What Movable Type does in 3/4 steps, YouTube does it in 1.