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How to change user habits with interaction design

Mar11
by on March 11, 2015 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, interaction design, Roundups

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Jerry Cao is a content strategist at UXPin — the wireframing and prototyping app — where he develops in-app and online content for the wireframing and prototyping platform. As creatures of habit, we humans behave predictably. We avoid interactions that make us feel bad, and seek out interactions that make us feel good. The most human of the 5 interaction dimensions, behavior therefore refers to how users respond to your interface — what is happening on their side of this interaction. Effective interaction design doesn’t just anticipate standard user behavior, but also shapes it. Source: Human Behavior In order to…

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Apple and Microsoft release patches to fix FREAK vulnerability

Mar11
by on March 11, 2015 at 7:46 am
Posted In: Around the Web, FREAK

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Apple and Microsoft have released patches to fix the FREAK security vulnerability found last week in Mac OS X, iOS and Windows operating systems. Microsoft published a number of critical security bulletins yesterday addressing vulnerabilities in both consumer and server editions of Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, SharePoint Server and Exchange Server. These updates also patch up Stuxnet, a worm that was allegedly created by the US government to spy on Iran and was discovered on Windows PCs in 2010. Meanwhile, Ars Technica reports that Apple has released a security roll-up package that includes fixes for the SSL vulnerability in Safari on…

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