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LastPass Gets A Makeover (kinda)

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A buddy of mine took it upon himself to redo the UI. Looks pretty slick.

Just so no one else is confused like I was for a few seconds - it's nothing of the sort. This is one guy's take at "redesigning" a popular site.

In fact, I'd really appreciate if a mod could retitle the site, because "LastPass gets a makeover (kinda)" implies a slight but official makeover, rather than "kinda LastPass" gets a makeover.

LastPass (which is awesome, by the way) gets used maybe 15 seconds a day... I'd say that keeping the interface high-density and therefore fast is more important than aesthetics.

Almost all interaction with LastPass is done through the browser bar anyways. You only have to go into the website when you've got a complicated thing to do.

Lastpass.com works for me in IE8, your makeover does not. So what would make me want to recommend it ?

I'm at work, so maybe Lastpass wouldn't be something I would use here anyway.

Edit: I should note that I did eventually open it in Firefox and it looked very sleek.

Note that among semi-technical users IE8-and-down usage is less than 3% of visits, and can only be expected to go down.

LastPass is almost certainly going to have 1% or fewer visitors using IE8.

It would be absolutely reasonable if their site looked ugly to users of unpopular, old browsers that weren’t even good when they were knew.

The real question is why are you still using IE8?

"I'm at work"

I can choose to use a Firefox stand alone install, but that does not have flash set up. And the world is still lonely without it.

In essence, I have been too lazy to find a better solution than the "it's there and it just works" solution..

Try out Chrome frame. It's an IE plugin that uses Chrome's rendering engine instead of IE's. It can be installed without admin privileges so it should work in almost all work environments. http://www.google.com/chromeframe

I have that actually :\ Google blog posts stopped displaying after I installed it. I thought that was slightly ironic.

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I guess a better question would be whether the interface is a factor in retaining customers at Lastpass. Clearly, their showpiece isn't the web interface--it's the ubiquity through all their browser extensions and apps so that you rarely need to go through said interface.

At the same time, I agree with other posters. It's low-density to the nth degree. I go to the lastpass web interface because I need to quickly sift through hundreds of websites to find a single password. I don't want to spend my time scrolling and waiting for animations. It looks pretty, in that it looks like 90% of websites shown on HN. That doesn't mean its all that suitable for the task at hand.

I did this redesign for Lastpass. I actually mocked it up in a few spare hours while at SXSW in Austin last March, so the design is far from perfect

Lastpass is an application I use daily, and it holds some of my most sensitive information. It also has one of the worst User Interfaces out there.

Good design can really give you a sense of security. Look at Mint.com; a site that asks for your bank account logins.

You should move the notice in the footer to the very top. Otherwise, this is really confusing if you've never used LastPass before.

Nice.

I think the font is too big. I can only see roughly 20 items on screen at a time, compared too 35 on the original site.

Besides that, it seems to capture all the functionality of the original site, while giving it a fresher look.

Thanks for the input, I put this design together in a couple spare hours while at SXSW in March. I know with the appropriate amount of time I could drill down the functionality and overall design.

But this is what I create in a few hours... just to show any redesign is a huge difference.

Should also ditch the animations. I know, they're pretty, but it just. slooows. eveerrryythinnn [connection closed by client]

Very neat and clean UI! Would definitely look nice on LastPass.

The delay for opening rows is too long. I find it frustrating to wait for animations to complete when they are that slow. Should be 50-100ms.

Why would I ever want to share a password? Not everything has to be social.

Ask LastPass. That's copied from their current interface.

And I imagine it could be useful if you knew another LastPass user and wanted to pass along an account. Though that's probably a fringe case, and I agree that it seems incongruous for a password service to encourage "sharing".

Nice, it sure needs one.

I love your passwords... :D Made me giggle!

multiple clicks on an item create multiple forms

Wicked

This is so incredibly low density. It's painful. It ignores existing categorization, I have no idea what the checkboxes are for.

Why are the mass applicable actions thrown in with completely random things. LastPass is an eye-sore, but it's 10x more functional than this.

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