Collaborate Disseminate
When a user fails to successfully login, what information should be given back to them?
Normally, we post back "Account not found" or "Incorrect password" or "Incorrect Location" (for location restrictions). B… Continue reading For failed logins, what information should be given to users?
Modern smartphones are a dizzying treatise on planned obsolescence. Whether it’s batteries that can’t be removed without four hours and an array of tiny specialized tools, screens that shatter with the lightest shock, or (worst of all) software that gets borked purposefully to make the phone seem older and slower …read more
When designing this custom MP3 player for his grandson, [Luc Brun] ran into a unique problem. He wanted the boy to be able to operate the player on his own, but being only 2½ years old, the user interface would have to be exceedingly straightforward. Too many buttons would just …read more
Continue reading Toddler-Friendly MP3 Player Navigates with Light
Resin 3D printers are finally cheap enough that peons like us can finally buy them without skipping too many meals, and what means we’re starting to see more and more of them in the hands of hackers. But to get good results you’ll also want a machine to cure the …read more
Continue reading A Smart Controller For Your DIY UV Cure Box
We’re a small UK startup building a small service that allows certain special people (e.g. journalists) to access non-public court information.
This information includes a ton of private and sensitive information that cannot just be share… Continue reading Is it safe and permissive to remember devices to skip two factor authentication when dealing with sensitive information?
There’s still plenty of useful hardware out there that uses an RS-232 interface, like the Behringer Ultradrive loudspeaker systems that [Lasse Lukkari] works with from time to time. Rather than ditch perfectly good gear because modern computers (to say nothing of phones or tablets) don’t have physical serial ports, he …read more
Continue reading ESP32 Serial Interface Modernizes Old Equipment
How to represent visually a number (like a key or hash) on a screen for visual comparison with another representation of that number on another screen (or another window) in such way that it would be very hard for an adversar… Continue reading What is the best way to show a (long) number for comparison?
A lot of commercial offerings of technology aimed at helping the elderly seem to do a good job on the surface, but anything other than superficial interaction with them tends to be next to impossible for its intended users. Complicated user interfaces and poor design consideration reign in this space. …read more
Continue reading Date Clock Requires (Almost) No Interaction
Join us on Wednesday, October 9 at noon Pacific for the Designing Sci-Fi Hack Chat with Seth Molson!
We all know the feeling of watching a movie set in a galaxy far, far away and seeing something that makes us say, “That’s not realistic at all!” The irony of watching
I’ve noticed that on many sites, when they ask for a one-time password (OTP) (usually sent by SMS), the input is hidden in the same way as a password field is.
My understanding is that once an OTP is used, then it is no long… Continue reading Why do many websites hide input when entering an OTP?