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I'm rather envious of your proximity to Tweenbots, the phenomenon
that introduced me to ITP. What a brilliant project.
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Hi Allan,
An approach could be, to advise users about choosing a strong
password, rather than forcing certain requirements.
In combination with this advise, you can show users the password
strength (poor, average, strong) of the password they are creating.
(I've an working example available if
I thoroughly dislike the ever-more bizarre combinations of
alphanumerics that are being required for passwords, even for sites
as simple as a forum. I found the article below after getting in a
heated discussion about the matter with the IT department of a
particular site. (It was the first hit on
FYI, this may be of value to those of you, like me, trying to grapple
and make sense of the recent (and ongoing) Cambrian-like explosion of
new design activities, fields, or domains of practice that has caused
some angst and confusion among those who affiliate themselves with
interaction design.
Hi there, this is my first post - grateful for any feedback.
What are people's thoughts about text links e.g. Google AdSense on websites
- should these links open in the same window or a new browser window?
We have deployed AdSense across a number of newspaper websites and see some
benchmarks
The easiest way to deal with passwords is to allow them to be simple
so the user can remember them, and then apply other techniques - like
limit the number of successive attempts (to 3 or something), protect
the login with captcha etc. Complex passwords and/or forcing changes
regularly will just
We discussed this very issue in my department recently.
We decided that it's a balance between security and usability. What
typical user wants to have a password 10chars long with a capital
and a special character? A short list:
1. Someone going to their banking site
2. Someone accessing tax
Alan Cox
Does anyone have any evidence, anecdotal or formal,
about how different password strength requirements
impact the usability of a web-based application?
snip
Our security purists here want really strong passwords
snip
At its heart, a request for a password is just another
Hey Ruairi,
My recommendation would be to open the links in the same browser
window. As you say yourself, it leaves the user in control of their
browser and they can always use the back button to get back to your
site.
In testing we've done users are completely comfortable using the
back button
Fascinating post from Jan Chipchase
(http://www.janchipchase.com/blog/archives/2009/04/10-apps-pfft.html)
relating to the coming of the billionth Iphone download but more
importantly the trend in mobile applications of an expected
installed life measured in minutes not days. Do we design
There's also a third pattern - deletion with undo (as used on gmail). This
combines immediacy with safety...
http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/googles_gmail_undo.php
Perhaps that's your solution right there, and it avoids futzing around with
a new term or icon for instant-delete which lets face
You don't mention whether this is for an internal or external site - how
much choice do the users have to use an alternative with simpler
registration requirements?
If it is for an external site, have you considered using OpenID (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openid)?
Francis.
--
Tigers walk
The more complex the password rules are the more likely people are to
get it wrong. As Yohan says some sort of visual feedback seems to be
the best solution to me, with a link to tips if the user is struggling
to understand your rules. The other think you may wish to consider is
how important is
Having encountered such situations before, I do not hold any
particular choice over the other but that depends on how you see your
target users.
Browsers like Firefox, IE7 IE8 supports tab functionality. While
users of these browsers are entitled to a learning curve where they
have to switch
The article on baekdal.com referred to by Michael is really worth
reading!
Here is another example of feedback on password strength
http://www.ylab.nl/lab/password/
- Yohan
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Alan Cox wrote:
Does anyone have any evidence, anecdotal or formal, about how
different password strength requirements impact the usability of a
web-based application?
Tangental, but here's a great article by Bruce Scheneier on Choosing
Secure Passwords based on how people actually attack
On Apr 15, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Daniel wrote:
Has anyone here seen a label that provides the users some sort of
clue as to which action will take place?
I have distinguished between these two patterns before by making the
immediate deletion buttons red, while leaving the mediated
deletion
Has anyone here seen a label that provides the users some sort of
clue as to which action will take place?
I can't think of an example at the moment specific to Delete functionality
but it is pretty common to append an ellipsis (...) to a label to indicate
that further input is needed from
Aditya,
This issue was discussed previously here: http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=33611
in great detail. The thread may have some answers for you.
Best,
Jack
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It depends how you balance your user vs business goals. It's a
strategic issue, because you send your visitors to another site
potentially never to return again.
If your balance is on the usability side, then don't annoy the user:
open in same window/tab, so you give the control to the user.
hi Ruairi,
In my experience, opening a new tab is preferential in this
situation. It allows the user to maintain their place in the paper
while checking out the ad. The ad links can take the user on a side
journey with several pages before they decide that they want to
return to reading the
Interesting discussion!
The vast majority of users understand online adverts, especially
AdSense ads by their very look and feel, and understand that they
will be brought elsewhere.
This means that they have made a conscious decision to click on a
link that they know will take them somewhere
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J Eric Townsend wrote:
I think that your security purists (love that phrase) need to define
the value of what you're protecting and determine an appropriate set
of password rules. Are you protecting my checking account or my
preferences at wunderground.com?
In my (and others)
One thing I'd like to reiterate and emphasize here is:
In my (and others) experience, people tend not to differentiate
between high and low value assets.
For most people, one password is hard enough: multiple passwords are
impossible to remember.
Consequently, rather than use separate
Well, that's certainly a tall order. I'm surprised that you've created a
sort of chronology in your diagram.
To me, this structure leads the diagram to say we used to do graphic
design, but now we do urban planning, etc.
Have you seen the History Shots poster Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music (
Kind of, but I'm looking for things that go beyond
product recommendation engines. I'm looking for more unusual examples.
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Alan Salmoni a...@usernumber1.com wrote:
Is Amazon's book / product recommendations the kind of thing you're
after?
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Thank you all for the examples so far. Unfortunately, I can't share many
details about this project at this stage. It's early on enough to say that
the personas have not been crafted. I'm merely looking for unique
personalization features to help me understand different ways applications
approach
Uday,
I love that you are interested in and thinking about design philosophy...
Interestingly, this coincides with a number of conversations I know are
happening within larger, established organizations where design has,
traditionally, been absent, added like an afterthought, enjoyed some
Awesome!
I think their is an AI theory, or their should be, that for the
intelligence to sustain itself it needs to periodically disassemble and
reassemble based on experience!
I have just started researching ways to implement game physics with
information architecture. I bought a PC laptop to
Don't know what technology you're working with, but the Windows
distinction between Delete and SHIFT-Delete comes to mind. It's not
the same becuase they're both mediated, but it's an exmple of the
user selecting one of two different actions to perform, which might
work in your case.
In a sense
Hiya folks,
Firstly, thanks to those who contributed to two recent threads here
about remote usability testing systems! I happen to be shopping for a
solution myself, and so I did a big round-up of the offerings that I
could discover. See:
Nicely done!
This is very helpful and quite thorough.
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http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=41325
Welcome to the Interaction Design
On email web apps (like Gmail), we have delete option which deletes
the emails immediately and places them in the Trash folder. This
seems to be a very normal practice for using 'Delete'
functionality.
Normally, no application does 'Instant Delete' as that is not a
common interface practice.
This is a really interesting visualization, Uday. I appreciate the
attempt to capture and conceptualize the world of design. I think
it's important for designers as a community to have a shared
awareness of the spectrum of design problems and the types of
specialties and practitioners out there.
Good Afternoon,
Can I post the following opening to your forum?
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We are
I like Dev Yamakawa's approach by putting an ellipsis after the word
Delete...
You could also do something like Delete now and Delete? and
ask for confirmation after clicking the Delete? button. Just a
suggestion.
Though I do believe the best thing to do is to have an undo
button after you've
Would anyone recommend a usability lab in Quebec City for a small
French-language usability test for a real estate website?
Please contact me on list or directly at:
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Thanks
Jane
Welcome to the Interaction
Im in my 60's (Yikes!); I'm on an old laptop without a scrollwheel;
my reading glasses are broken and one lens is missing.
I'm trying to read this discussion but the text is too small. I know
enough to try ViewText SizeLargest ... but of course that doesn't
make any difference.
I also know that
I completely agree with Bruce here. Complex passwords and regular
expirations forces the user to record the password elsewhere which is
much greatest risk. Quite a few websites have sprung up who provide
password saving functionality, but I wouldnt be able to sleep
peacefully knowing that all my
Hello IxDA-ers,
Long time lurker. First time poster.
After following today's thread on password strength requirements, I
wanted to see what the list has to say on mobile security vs. ease-of-
use...
1. What is your thinking/point-of-view on application-level security
requirements for a
I like the idea of showing checkout button as a persistent navigation.
This helps user in finding the button easily and quickly.
harryanddavid.com has used this very well, the checkout tray showing
zero items or number of items may pursue users to buy more items.
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Cool, thanks for the feedback and suggestions--great stuff!
Particularly want to echo what Angela commented about the nature of
the ordering and its historical organization. It's not about
worse/better fields of design at all, and that inference should not
be drawn. It's a common yet inaccurate
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