{"id":1444,"date":"2021-11-22T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T05:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2022-01-09T16:09:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T21:09:45","slug":"figma-password-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/fail\/figma-password-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Figma password-creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Context<\/h2>\n<p>Figma is a popular web-based design application. People need a user-account to design things, which means that they need a password. Like every product that requires signing in, Figma has rules for peoples&#8217; chosen passwords. The process is standard, and the screens for creating\/re-setting passwords are simplistic.<\/p>\n<h2>Flaws<\/h2>\n<h3>Password rules are a mystery<\/h3>\n<figure>\n<div><a href=\"\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/figma_password_1.jpg\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/figma_password_1.jpg\" alt=\"Figma: Choose a new password\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div><figcaption>By default, Figma doesn&#8217;t communicate its rules for passwords.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Simplicity is a virtue, but the design and copy are <em>too<\/em> simple in one regard. That is, they don&#8217;t list the minimum requirements for passwords.<\/p>\n<h3>The minimum character-length is implicit<\/h3>\n<figure>\n<div><a href=\"\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/figma_password_2.jpg\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/figma_password_2.jpg\" alt=\"Figma: Please set password longer than seven characters\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div><figcaption>For chosen passwords that are too short, a message implies the minimum length.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Most people can interpret &#8220;longer than seven characters&#8221; to mean &#8220;at least eight characters.&#8221; The former involves a bit more effort to process, though. Somebody who is <em>neurodivergent<\/em> or who isn&#8217;t fluent it English might have some difficulty. I appreciate the error-message being a proper sentence that shows the number as a <em>word<\/em>. In this context, however, I would argue for representing the number as a <em>digit<\/em> because it&#8217;s easier to process.<\/p>\n<h3>The minimum complexity-level is vague<\/h3>\n<figure>\n<div><a href=\"\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/figma_password_3.jpg\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/figma_password_3.jpg\" alt=\"Figma: Please choose a stronger password\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div><figcaption>For chosen passwords that are too simple, the error-message doesn&#8217;t offer any tips.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The site doesn&#8217;t specify why some chosen passwords are too weak\/simple or how they can meet the strength\/complexity requirement. Some sites display a scale for people to gauge their chosen passwords. A few sites offer specific instructions, like avoiding the usage of actual words or even strings that resemble actual words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To prevent unauthorized sign-in, account passwords need to be long and strong. Figma follows this norm, but it doesn&#8217;t communicate its rules in the most usable ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fail","tag-ux-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}