Amol Dharmadhikari

Yahoo: Are You From The Future?

by Amol Dharmadhikari July 28, 2011 Just One Other Thing

On Yahoo! mail registration page, when you enter your birth year as something that’s beyond the current year, check out their message.   Nice subtle sense of humor, isn’t it?

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Security and Usability – II

by Amol Dharmadhikari May 12, 2011 Usability

In this follow up article to Security and Usability – I, we continue our earlier discussion and also look at some real world examples, of good as well as bad security, that affects the usability aspect. As mentioned earlier, it has been seen that usability and security are orthogonal concerns. But which one is more [...]

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Security and Usability – I

by Amol Dharmadhikari May 3, 2011 Usability

It is a truth universally acknowledged that systems that are deemed secure are unusable and systems that are usable are not very secure. As the old joke goes, the best way to prevent your computer from getting hacked is to shut it down! If the computer industry is to come up with secure systems that [...]

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Boorish behavioral patterns

by Amol Dharmadhikari February 27, 2011 Usability

To many coders, application development is the more glamorous part of software development, as compared to building the user interface for the same. What most of coders ignore however, is that to the end-user, the user interface IS the system. And what most end-users want is a system, which is functional, intuitive, easy to use [...]

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