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title: To show or not to show [registered user only actions]
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- Design
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Last week I struggled with a design decision that really caught my attention. Consider this:
<ul>
	<li>You have a <em>user driven app</em> on the web.</li>
	<li>You also provide some actions for <em>guests</em>.</li>
</ul>
What you would do? Either:
<ol>
	<li><strong>Don't show the user only actions?</strong> (my opinion: this one reduces clutter on your interface).</li>
	<li><strong>Or do show them and when the user clicks</strong> the links/buttons, the user gets a login redirected page for every new click?</li>
</ol>
<h3>My pick would be number <em>1</em>. Why?</h3>
I'd rather have a welcome page that showed you what to use in case you signed up. Actions such as creating a new item on a product list and message sending that apparently require a sign up are confusing for a guest. Besides, clicking on such an action and redirecting you to a login page <em>several times</em> is not that much of an engaging experience.

Feel free to add up on this thought.