Comments on: User Experience (UX) Design http://www.marquiscote.com/2007/03/user-experience-ux-design/ ~ ramblings of a techno'ntrepreneur Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:40:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jason http://www.marquiscote.com/2007/03/user-experience-ux-design/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Jason Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:08:17 +0000 http://www.marquiscote.com/?p=74#comment-13 I agree that security is something that often overlooked. But it's also something that needs to be very clearly defined, and very carefully implemented. If not, you may get security spilling over into other areas, where it should not be. Security can break a website. For example I went to send an email from my new Yahoo account {had to merge Flickr}. After I pressed send on my email, instead of just sending it, it brought me to a page to fill out a CAPTCHA to ensure I was human. I wasn't expecting it, felt like I was being treated as a spammer, and I got a bad taste in my mouth. Here Yahoo sacrificed usability, accessibility and credibility for security. Credibility is a tough one too. Authenticity breeds credibility. The more authentic and open your effort, the more credibility you will gather. Don't just release a video online. Release all the assets of the video, and encourage others to mix it, mash it, and post their own versions. You get ambassadors for free, and the web will promote the good and punish the bad. I agree that security is something that often overlooked. But it’s also something that needs to be very clearly defined, and very carefully implemented.

If not, you may get security spilling over into other areas, where it should not be. Security can break a website.

For example I went to send an email from my new Yahoo account {had to merge Flickr}. After I pressed send on my email, instead of just sending it, it brought me to a page to fill out a CAPTCHA to ensure I was human. I wasn’t expecting it, felt like I was being treated as a spammer, and I got a bad taste in my mouth. Here Yahoo sacrificed usability, accessibility and credibility for security.

Credibility is a tough one too. Authenticity breeds credibility. The more authentic and open your effort, the more credibility you will gather. Don’t just release a video online. Release all the assets of the video, and encourage others to mix it, mash it, and post their own versions. You get ambassadors for free, and the web will promote the good and punish the bad.

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