My 2 cents: Matthew wrote: website: a user management system for secure student data. Clients are a little paranoid about passwords and user names getting out. ***
If that's the case, make sure the site has the best security. Masking passwords or making them viewable only by printing won't solve the security issue if it has poorly coded security. Matthew wrote: behavior: when you select a user and want to reset his or her password, the resulting screen shows the user name, but then blanks out the password which you can only see by printing the page. Blanking out the password seems silly since you can still see it if you print it out. Do people agree this is poor functionality? If so, is there any evidence to support my feeling that this is a bad idea? *** Ask the question back - so if someone loses their password, a piece of paper must be used each time? How many times does a student lose their password? It can get really costly if the password requires more than eight characters, a number or symbol, or some other constrained criteria. Users won't remember it no matter what. Best thing to do is to make sure your solution fits with their policy. The actual behavior can be changed according to the policy. There's more than 1 way to...[fill in the blank] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43289 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
