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Signing into the Atmosphere is a bit of a lottery. This is a user problem. But it's also a builder problem. The Atmosphere needs a brand identify, a design system, tools for builders to drive broad dev and user adoption. wecanjustdothings.leaflet.pub/3mlv5oijn5s2q #ATmosphere 🌀 #ATproto 🪿

wecanjustdothings.leaflet.pubThe Atmosphere needs a front door - We Can Just Do ThingsThe Atmosphere needs a distinct brand identify, better tools for builders, a new UX for users, and a small empowered group willing to build it all.

Sherif EA@sherif.mu.social

If we’re gonna have login with Atmosphere, do we not need an Atmosphere logo? @renderg.host

15/5/26, 10:53 am5 reposts45 likes

Updated the article with some links to related work shared since publication.

@alexbenzer.com @sherif.eurosky.social @rude1.blacksky.team @cozylittle.house @aka.dad @joebasser.com @hipstersmoothie.com let's work on this

@cozylittle.house

I’m still not sure that we want the atmosphere to have a strong brand. To give people the impression that there is someone “in charge” of the Atmosphere is misleading and could bite us later I’d rather atmosphere is more like log in with email than that it’s like Google OAuth for example!

Needed a little time to sit with this. I believe both are possible: help users identify a promise that this is all connected, without misleading them into thinking one org is running the whole show. It’s still just a design / communication challenge.

@cozylittle.house

Best practices are useful of course! We could get together and write the Material Design library of Atmosphere apps?

Love this. Where would you start? ( And where can we meet? And who should we invite? I feel @tynanpurdy.com has ideas here.

Credit to my homeboy @aka.dad for the inspiration and the logo mark I used in this article.

@andyschwab.link

cc: @christian.bsky.social

@sherif.mu.social

Let’s do it

Matteo Marjanovic

@matteomarjanovic.com

Really nice write up! One person on reddit asked me if they could just use their email to sign up to @currents.is and I had to try explain the whole atmosphere thing in simple terms.

Matteo Marjanovic

@matteomarjanovic.com

I guess the button idea is great, but also a way to sign up directly with email while also informing on what's happening under the hood (e.g. sign up with a default pds of choice, if user doesn't choose one) would remove a lot of friction.

Sign in/up with email is the very next field you see *after* clicking the button, just like "Sign in with Google" et al.

dad (aka miguel)

that’s funny, this was the ultimate goal of the atmosphere site i was working on. i like the term “front door”, i think a service that remembers the apps and accounts a user has logged into could be very useful! nice work! gonna read more when i have some more time later

I was picking up what you were putting down, obviously. (as ze Germans say "zwei Dumme, ein Gedanke" 😛) It's a huge gap in the Atmosphere UX and could be a megaboost for every app that implements it. And you should design the brand.

Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한 謝雪矢

Re: "i think a service that remembers …" Maybe this? atpassport.net

atpassport.net@passport@passport is a handle (user ID) management and authentication assistant for users of the decentralized social protocol 'atproto'. By registering your handle once, you can enjoy seamless logins across ...

dad (aka miguel)

yes but no. seems decently thought through but my main idea is to make this more of a frontdoor for the atmosphere. the current implementations of atpassport make it seem like its own own separate thing from the atmosphere. plus the design and copy work that would need to go into something like this

@littlebitstudios.com

ATProto already has a logo, it's the little blue @ in the atproto.com favicon. Idk why it isn't used in more places where you can sign in with Bluesky/the ATmosphere

The atmosphere and the protocol are different things, conceptually. The protocol is a technology set, and the atmosphere is an ecosystem of products and services and communities resulting from that enablement.

As such, to me they have different audiences and need different metaphors.

@thisismissem.social

I'd just caution against reinventing FedCM UX (which is built into browsers and is being actively worked on)

Thanks Emelia. Tell me more? This is a new term for me.

Ah! This exactly (notice my thumb references this UI, I just didn’t know the technical name).

I can’t wait for Atmospheric FedCM to be ready! Is there an account we should follow for news? (It may just be yours 😄)

@thisismissem.social

There's a blog on leaflet, I'm actually behind on writing an article for it as I've been hammered by my chronic illness the past two weeks

I’m sorry to hear you’re unwell atm. I can find the post and have a read.

I’m sorry to hear that! I hope you feel better soon & that there’s enough space around work-stuff that you get to chill when you do, too! (Found the leaflet and subscribed 😊 thanks decentralizing-fedcm.leaflet.pub )

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