Posts tagged “usability”

I’m so glad that somebody is talking about how difficult it is to install software on the Mac. I find that the majority of my friends who have Macs are running their applications from the always-mounted disk images on their desktop. Of course, if they ever reboot this means they have to go online and download the application again. When I show them the correct way to install an app, it flies right over their heads and they look at me as if I’m some gifted computer genius.

Jakob Nielsen:

Most websites (and many other applications) mask passwords as users type them, and thereby theoretically prevent miscreants from looking over users' shoulders. Of course, a truly skilled criminal can simply look at the keyboard and note which keys are being pressed. So, password masking doesn’t even protect fully against snoopers.