Login Standards

Coburn Hawk
Good UX / Bad UX
Published in
1 min readApr 28, 2015

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Do I Log in… or do I Login?

Log in — verb.

You must log in. (take an action — verb)

Login — noun or adjective.

Enter your login name here. (adj.)

Log-in — noun or adjective.

Your account log-in is secure. (n.)

Change your log-in name. (adj.)

NEVER use Log-in as a verb

Because I always have to print this out and put it on my wall… Hope this helps others along the way. — Coburn

Update: Check Out vs Checkout

Check outverb.

When you are ready to check out at the grocery store…

Checkoutnoun or adjective.

you wait in the checkout line .

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Coburn Hawk
Good UX / Bad UX

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