[Chicago] Congrats to Mentoring Project Participants

[Jordan Bettis]

On 06/02/2011 09:56 PM, Brian Ray wrote:
> http://chipy.org/meetings/rsvp/33/maybe ). Yes, you must create an
> account. If that bother's me email me off the list to RSVP for next
> weeks meeting.

^-- this is a user-hostile design.

Especially given that you also have to confirm an email address to
create an account, and you can't login until it's confirmed, and then
after you're confirmed, you're still not logged in and you have to do
that before you can go back to the page and RSVP.

So in short the process is this:
1. Go to chypy.org
2. Press the RSVP button
3. Get an error about needing an account
4. Make an account, providing an email address and generating yet
another password in your password manager.
5. Go to your email reader and wait for the confirmation to arrive.
6. Click on the confirmation, going back to the web.
7. Find you're still not logged in, even though you were just confirmed.
8. Fetch the password back out of your manager so you can finally login.
9. Go back to the homepage and finally RSVP.

A good rule of thumb when designing software is stopping and saying to
yourself, "Would I rather stick a fork in my eye than go through the
process I just created?" If the answer is "yes," it might need a rethink.