To me the process seems most intuitive like this:

1. Go to homepage
2. Be able to immediately log in or have separate links for login and sign up

I find it counterintuitive to have a field on the homepage that looks like a login but isn’t. Does the website have more new users than returning users?

In my experience they look like this:

Yes, they’re labeled. My usual experience online though is that this is presented the other way around. Signing up is its own button, and logging in is the default field. So, I’m sure like many others, I intuitively go forth and try to sign in.

I’m posting this in the mildly infuriating community, because the interface is counterintuitive. This wasn’t posted in “worst UIs.”

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