This is a niggling usability/layout thing that has irked me nearly every day for the past six months. The issue is minor, but irritating to me as someone that *thinks* they have at least some eye for form and function.

Here it is…

Between work and home, I have a half dozen or so Google accounts covering my Gmail, adwords, adsense, and various analytics accounts…again for my personal and work web analytics. So if I am logged into Gmail, and go to log into analytics for one of my work related accounts, I am cookied and need to “sign in as a different user”. No big deal, I totally understand what is happening and why this is the way it is.

What drives me nuts though, is that on this login screen, Google gives the same weight and importance to this “sign in as a different user” link, as it does to the “I cannot access my account” link…in fact it puts the latter ABOVE the former, which causes me to inadvertently click the wrong link nearly 40% of the time.

I guess there is not much more to this post than that, and I am probably over-reacting here…but it annoys me. These links (to me) should not be of equal weight, or if they need to be of equal weight, should at least be vertically reversed and spaced a bit better.

The end.

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