Comments on: How do we design for learned helplessness? http://www.pamgriffith.net/blog/how-do-we-design-for-learned-helplessness Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:01:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Pam Griffith http://www.pamgriffith.net/blog/how-do-we-design-for-learned-helplessness/comment-page-1#comment-39 Pam Griffith Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:52:40 +0000 http://www.pamgriffith.net/blog/?p=16#comment-39 Thanks for your comment :) That is a great strategy. At the time I figured it was more harmful to say anything that would make Mom feel like she was doing anything wrong than any of the potential harms of an easy-to-guess facebook password, but maybe there's a way to build that advice into the interface--instead of saying "weak," maybe something more verbose like "that password is pretty easy to guess, here are some strategies for creating good passwords that are easy to remember..." Thanks for your comment :) That is a great strategy. At the time I figured it was more harmful to say anything that would make Mom feel like she was doing anything wrong than any of the potential harms of an easy-to-guess facebook password, but maybe there’s a way to build that advice into the interface–instead of saying “weak,” maybe something more verbose like “that password is pretty easy to guess, here are some strategies for creating good passwords that are easy to remember…”

]]> By: Margaret Organ-Kean http://www.pamgriffith.net/blog/how-do-we-design-for-learned-helplessness/comment-page-1#comment-30 Margaret Organ-Kean Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:55:16 +0000 http://www.pamgriffith.net/blog/?p=16#comment-30 Thank you - this is a good article. On easy-to-remember but hard-to-break passwords, I find that its good to pick a phrase such as '76 Trombones in the Big Parade!' where you can parse it out using the numbers, first (or last) letters and punctuation - thereby getting 76TitBP! Not obvious, not a word, but pretty easy to remember. Thank you – this is a good article.

On easy-to-remember but hard-to-break passwords, I find that its good to pick a phrase such as ’76 Trombones in the Big Parade!’ where you can parse it out using the numbers, first (or last) letters and punctuation – thereby getting

76TitBP!

Not obvious, not a word, but pretty easy to remember.

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