by Schehrezade Davidson | Jan 5, 2012 | Mobile, Usability
As mobile devices flood the market and consumers increase their browsing time on small screens with smaller keyboards, the alphanumeric password is seeming less and less user friendly. Windows, trying to appeal to the mobile savvy user, is initiating an authentication...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Jan 22, 2010 | Banking, Phishing, Trends, Usability
Two studies show that young people are more likely to be victims of online fraud. You’d think that since most of them have not experienced a world without Internet and email, they’d be more knowledgeable about phishing and other schemes. But the insurance group CPP...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Jan 14, 2010 | Mobile, Retail, Trends, Usability
This year’s Consumer Electronics Show brought us some interesting trends and ideas. In his review of the show, Lance Ulanoff lists 9 things he’s learned there. In the last point in that post, he makes the observation that “the marriage of technology and content...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Jan 14, 2010 | Mobile, Usability
Do you hear that? The sound of drip… drip… drip…? It’s the sound of money ever so gradually leaving your account through insecure transactions. There are these clever little ways to send money through text messaging – Yele does it to help...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Jan 5, 2010 | Usability
Zack Whittaker’s post on whether we still need usernames/passwords is fueling an interesting debate at ZDNet. The premise is familiar – everyone is tired of storing their hundreds of passwords in an Excel sheet or a password management app. Wouldn’t it be...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Jan 2, 2010 | Usability
The quip at the bottom of this password worksheet is priceless. Why try to remember what you could just write down? The sad thing is that there are actually products like this still out there, encouraging people to write down and maintain a paper trail of their...
