UX Tweak - Critique Pls!

Please view @2x and please critique. There are a couple very minor UX tweaks, but I feel that they're potentially very important in differentiating a typical login screen with a screen that's really paying attention to the details:

1. I changed the "user" icon to a "mail" icon because it has always required an email address and not a username.

2. I wanted to see what the button looks like with an icon instead of saying "log in". I feel like people already know that they're logging in, and I want a key (or some other icon) to replace the words "log in" the same way that magnifying glasses are on "search" buttons nowadays.

I intentionally made this exactly the same as the original shot so you can compare the difference.

What do you guys think? Good UX improvements? Lame?

Posted on Feb 20, 2013
Riki Tanone
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