On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:20 PM, James Page <jamesp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anybody actually done some research into how many people it effects? > I find most times I type a wrong password it is not because of a typo, > but because it is the wrong password. Masking/Unmasking will not help here. > For example typing my Twitter password into Gmail, or my Gmail password > into Twitter. > I agree. On iPhone and maybe other mobiles, the chance of typo is way higher. I can't say how many times I hit the wrong key on my iPhone, but it is often, and the little preview before mask helps a lot there. But I have to say I've been in public rooms and felt exposed even just having this on my iPhone; I would probably not use a site that tried this for conventional Web. The other thing is that when you type on a keyboard, especially something as rote as a password, you type so fast that the little preview thing doesn't help anyways. In short, I think the preview then mask approach really only works on iPhone/mobile. We should not be encouraging folks to try this or other unmasked approaches that are not opt in. I mean, when I have someone nearby, I get self-conscious even with masking, and if someone else is, for instance, signing in to do something for me (like adding my computer to a domain), I look away out of courtesy--so I don't even see their fingers on the keyboard. Not masking is just crazy talk. I am still baffled that Nielson suggests it. -ambrose ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
