ACM Interactions

Authors:
Joel Grossman

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What does it mean to provide a secure user experience? The intersection of the two has generally been defined—and explored—in technical terms. Hard-working people in BSD t-shirts have established over time what we, as user-experience professionals, have come to understand as the key considerations when working with security. These tend to the functional: standardized, time-tested design principles such as users and groups, access control lists, granular permissions, and redundancy. Incorporate best practices and design your interaction accordingly. Right? However effective they might be, consider for a moment one source of these meaningful practices. They all have a strong connection…

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