UXpod - User Experience Podcast - Security and Usability

Security and Usability

01/17/07 • 7 min

Security and usability are frequently in conflict. Workarounds are common, and there may be unrealistic expectations of what users would or should do.I mention that ChinesePod made Time Magazine's Top Ten Podcasts of 2006. (www.time.com/time/topten/2006/podcasts/10.html)The Usability Kit (Gaffney/Szuc) is available for purchase online. (www.theusabilitykit.com)This episode is 7 minutes 10 seconds in duration. File size is 4.1MB.

Previous Episode

Design in India - an Interview with Apala Lahiri Chavan

I asked Apala about designing for low-income, low-literacy audiences.Apala also talks about cultural differences between India and China, and between India and 'the West', about the dangers of being overly-polite, about why foreign insurance companies may not do well in India, and about the use of rasas for measuring emotion.You can read more about Apala on the Human Factors International website (www.humanfactors.com/about/Apala.asp).See Wikipedia's entry on Rasas (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasa_%28art%29).(I referred to Paul Sherman's presentations at User Friendly 2006 in China - Paul's put them online, and there are pointers on his blog - www.usabilityblog.com/blog/archives/2006/11/my_user_friendl.php).This episode is 20 minutes 43 seconds in duration. File size is 11.8MB.

Next Episode

Intel Outside - an Interview with Genevieve Bell

Genevieve Bell is Director of Intel's User Experience Group.

In this interview, she talks about what it means to build technology with the home in mind, about cultural influences in the use of technology, about the connection between religion and technology, and about sheds.

Genevieve says that part of what people want is for technology to be invisible.

"Computational power is important but what people see is the experience."