Sign-In Continuity
One aspect of social-networking websites that I hate is links that don't take me where I want to go. This happens when I haven't logged in yet, so I get taken to the login page, and then the website decides that I should go to my home page. That page isn't where I wanted to go, however, and by now, I can't remember what I wanted to look at anymore. The Sign-In Continuity pattern addresses this situation and recommends that the software return the user to the context he or she was in before being asked to sign in.
Sign-In Continuity is from Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience, by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone (O'Reilly).
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