A friend of mine (named Ian) sent me the following email.
I had an interesting ID related experience tonight at an event. The lady filling out the name cards asked for my name. I said “My name is Ian. I – A – N”. I then watched as she wrote “ENIAN” on my name card. I politely corrected her and received a new card. In retrospect, I regret not taking the “ENIAN” card. If anyone had asked me the origin of the name I could have simply pointed to the name card lady. Surely, this process would have gone more smoothly if I had a business card to present at the registration table. I can’t help but think the same would be true for web based transactions.
I love it when amateurs think they can design identity systems.
- The name by which the Name Card Lady knows me would be the same as that she asserts to the other attendees. GUID
- He misses an obvious acronym opportunity with NCL (Name Card Lady)
- Not a single mention of 'user-centric' or 'metasystem'.
Rookie
1 comment:
Hm, you made me fall into a muse. I had such a situation once and did the same as your friend did. My name is Ashlie. She wrote "Ashley" in spite of the fact that I had spelled it.
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