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Security and usability: Don’t let your users get you down
After my first year at university I spent the summer working in a delicatessen in Putney. One morning during my first week, whilst in the middle of carefully carving six slices of Parma ham for some lady’s dinner party, we … Continue reading
Getting your hands on Apple’s iPhone
Another Apple marketing frenzy has led to the UK bracing itself for the launch of the iPhone tomorrow. The Carphone Warehouse is expecting large queues and Scotland Yard are warning customers to hide their new handsets so that they don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Tech News, Technical
Tagged apple, bill buxton, direct manipulation, hand gestures, human-computer interaction, I/O, iphone, multi-touch, steve jobs, usability, user experience
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[pdf] Designing web usability [pdf] Ensuring web accessibility [pdf] Using software for accessibility and usability [pdf] Usability tools and techniques [pdf] Measuring and increasing website return on investment (Stalker-Firth, R., July 2003)
Codebreaking: Humans are the weakest link
People are the weakest link in all computer systems. We hear about the best cryptography money can buy: integrity checking, sender/receiver identity authentication, digital signatures, and then someone leaves a list of passwords on a post-it note stuck above a … Continue reading
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Tagged analysis, artificial intelligence, bletchley, code breakers, cognitive science, computers, cryptography, Design, enigma, herivel, phishing, rejewski, security, support, technology, usability
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Cognitive Science for IT Security
Humans are involved in 80-90% of IT security system breaches. We have the technological capacity to keep our software systems secure with but we cannot control the way people use IT. As the complexity of IT systems increase, designers must … Continue reading