Re: [IxDA Discuss] Password Strength Requirements

2009-04-18 Thread Chris Novell
I have read the prior replies and looked at the recommended links with interest and have learned a lot - thanks, all! I would like to suggest that a user could select a relatively strong password and write down something close to the password. They would then need to remember only what the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Great Personalization Examples

2009-04-18 Thread Hernan Teano
eBay's Selling form analyzes user behavior to progressively display features/functionality on the form (so a beginner will see a simplified version, and as they gain experience using the form they will see more and more features). And they also let you customize the form (add/remove features) at

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Round-up of remote usability testing systems

2009-04-18 Thread Craig Melbourne
That great Liz, saved me a job. I've always been a bit bemused why the Async tools are so expensive. I looked at UserZoom but couldn't justify passing on the costs to some of my smaller (yet worthy) clients so I ended up building my own. Hoping that Loop11 is *affordably priced*. . . . .

[IxDA Discuss] JOB User Interface Designer Alviso, CA, TiVo, 6mo contract

2009-04-18 Thread j. eric townsend
[disclaimer: I've worked for TiVo as a security/privacy engineer for ~8 years, am currently on leave to finish my MS Design. I can answer questions about the general work environment, but don't know details about this particular opening other than what is in the listing. --jet]

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Sixth sense from MIT labs

2009-04-18 Thread Janna Hicks DeVylder
I really enjoyed this. It most made me think about privacy. Although mobile technologies do not necessarily afford privacy, you're at least dealing with a small screen that you can be discrete with. The projection of information within shared spaces certainly adds 'texture' for people to base

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Password Strength Requirements

2009-04-18 Thread Katie Albers
I really don't think that's a good idea. I've never tested it, but my gut says that: 1) if you use it so seldom you don't remember it, then you use it so seldom you don't remember the modification (which of those variations you proposed did I use? I should write it down) 2) if you use

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Password Strength Requirements

2009-04-18 Thread j. eric townsend
Lost in this discussion of password strength is, how do we handle multiple failed logins, forgotten passwords, and compromised passwords? If your overall design (is this where we get into service design?) is put together correctly, a compromised password (or an attack on an account) isn't

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Password Strength Requirements

2009-04-18 Thread Angel Marquez
Sounds like encryption http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_cracking to me like wep http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_Equivalent_Privacy on my wireless network at home. The systems in place have trained the way I choose passwords. I have a standardized way. I can recall 4 systems at the moment,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Two \Delete\ behaviors - one type of label?

2009-04-18 Thread Jim Drew
There are also two flavors of Deletion: true delete and move to trash (from which the user can retrieve it later). A third flavor as well, for some products: Hide. Remove from library (other other view) but don't do anything with the file on disk. (And I think Adobe Bride has a flag

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Two \Delete\ behaviors - one type of label?

2009-04-18 Thread Elizabeth Bacon
I support Dev in suggesting the ellipsis ... to differentiate related controls where the difference is that one acts immediately and the other requires confirmation. A confirmation of a delete is technically a dialog box, although a lightweight one, and the ellipses is a convention here. Delete

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Mobile security vs. ease-of-use

2009-04-18 Thread Barbara Ballard
2009/4/16 Erik Wingren i...@interactivism.com: 1. What is your thinking/point-of-view on application-level security requirements for a mobile app, where one of its' features is to store personal, potentially sensitive data, when the app runs on a mobile device that already has built-in

[IxDA Discuss] MEX 2009 (London) anyone?

2009-04-18 Thread Gaurabh Mathure
Hi all I was wondering if anyone is planning to attend MEX 2009, London this year. I had registered a seat on the website but currently am unable to go for the event due to client work. The terms conditions of the conference require me to pay atleast 50% of the conference fee for my