Contextual User Interfaces

http://chrismahon.com/blog/2009/03/contextual-user-interfaces/

by chrismahon • 17 years ago

10 5 17 years ago

jpirkola• 17 years ago

Good points, but not so many of them. After having first well designed site I really could use feedback: What if the UI was semi-automatically giving feedback? Like each link could have two variations: normal: _change time zone_ and with feedback: _change zone but why this was buried here_ Now as a webmaster I could follow up if people started to "complain" on something.

nx• 17 years ago

Emailing the password? Ha.

unalone2• 17 years ago

Why is this a ha? I'm confused.

khafra• 17 years ago

There's a few reasons this is undesirable. The reason that leaps to the fore is that this means the password itself--not a hash of it--is stored in the application. Since people re-use passwords and usernames, that means a breach of security in one website could lose a large swath of many users' online identities. These days, most low-security websites randomly reset your password and email the new one. For financial or other higher security websites, two-factor authentication is normal.

Contextual User Interfaces

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