A few months back I was working on a piece about password masking with
Josh Viney that touched on many of these issues...
Before we were able to publish it, Viget Labs beat us to it.
http://www.viget.com/advance/password-fields-are-annoying/
They show several javascript techniques that handle the situation
nicely. (at the bottom you'll find the iPhone-like solution)
One very important issue that Nielsen seems to be glossing over is
that one password is often used for many accounts...and so when
someone steals a single password they are often getting the keys to
the kingdom, so to speak.
As a designer I prefer to keep control in the user's hands at all
times (while also providing feedback when they want it), and so I'm
using the "show password" technique or the iPhone-like technique in
recent projects.
Cheers,
Josh
Joshua Porter, Founder
Bokardo Design
Interface design & strategy for social web applications
phone: 508-954-1896
http://bokardo.com
por...@bokardo.com
twitter: bokardo
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