To me it feels a little like you're trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Just about everyone is familiar with the username/password paradigm, and honestly I've never seen anyone have a problem with it.
Usernames (or email addresses, as is common) and passwords are two distinct pieces of data, they are not one, so why should they be presented as one? Basically, the only advantage here is that you can hit space instead of tab as far as I can see it… and the time needed to read the helper text above the input field far outweighs the time novice users who click in each field will take to do so. This seems to me like a net loss, and source of "WTFery" for everyone. Separating username and password is not some senseless convention or relic from the past, it's the logical visual result of this authentication model.
(I disagree with those saying that OpenID is a great login experience; for me, it's by far the worst login experience I've seen. The example given [StackOverflow] caters to a very technical audience anyway, so it's a non-issue there, but for Joe Public it's just a constant source of confusion. This has been debated to death elsewhere, though.)
To me it feels a little like you're trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Just about everyone is familiar with the username/password paradigm, and honestly I've never seen anyone have a problem with it.
Usernames (or email addresses, as is common) and passwords are two distinct pieces of data, they are not one, so why should they be presented as one? Basically, the only advantage here is that you can hit space instead of tab as far as I can see it… and the time needed to read the helper text above the input field far outweighs the time novice users who click in each field will take to do so. This seems to me like a net loss, and source of "WTFery" for everyone. Separating username and password is not some senseless convention or relic from the past, it's the logical visual result of this authentication model.
(I disagree with those saying that OpenID is a great login experience; for me, it's by far the worst login experience I've seen. The example given [StackOverflow] caters to a very technical audience anyway, so it's a non-issue there, but for Joe Public it's just a constant source of confusion. This has been debated to death elsewhere, though.)