December 2025
- Dec 25, 2025TechnologyNavigating Security Trade-offs for UsabilitySecurity is a cost-benefit analysis, not an absolute standard. NIST reversed decades of guidance in its 2017 SP 800-63B by dropping mandatory password complexity and rotation, because users answered those rules with sticky notes and predictable patterns. Cormac Herley's 2009 Microsoft Research paper showed why: when compliance costs more than the expected loss, ignoring the advice is rational. Usability failures are security failures.
- Dec 16, 2025TechnologyMobile UX Principles: Designing User-Friendly AppsAnother 36 percent cradled the phone and tapped with the other hand, leaving two-thumb use the minority at 15 percent. That is why primary controls belong in the reachable bottom third and why bottom tab bars displaced hamburger menus, since hidden navigation also suppresses feature discovery. The page covers 44 point touch targets, expanding a hitbox beyond the visible element, 100 millisecond feedback, skeleton screens and deferred registration.
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