LearningLine's sign-up page

LearningLine's sign-up page

Feb 2015

The sign-up form for LearningLine, an online learning platform.

Create a free account at LearningLine

Overall, it’s functional but badly written. Problems:

  • Useless placeholder text that adds no extra information
  • The French quotation marks used to imply forward and backward
  • The random links beneath the form are very strange.
    • If that’s a call to action, it should be “Sign in”.
    • The second one’s just a link to the site home page, not sure what that’s supposed to help with.
    • Email us does exactly what it says on the tin - opens an email to them - but it’s not at all clear why you’d want to do that.

Even better, if you don’t enter a name in the Real name field, and then hover over the field, you get this gem:

Real name: first and last name. Enter your first name (required).

a) that’s a really undiscoverable way of giving error information. b) which is it supposed to be? First name? Full name? What?