Why Designers Need to Learn About Security with Jared Spool

Jared Spool, founder UIE and co-founder of Center Centre, talks about why designers need to learn about security and how to demonstrate to stakeholders that having a poor security UX is more expensive than fixing it.

Show Notes

In this episode, we talk about:

• Why security UX requires “selective usability” and how that poses unique challenges for designers.
• Thinking about security in terms of safety systems: putting the burden on the system rather than on the user.
• How to work effectively with the security team.

And Jared shares lots of examples.

Jared Spool is the founder of UX consultancy UIE and the co-founder of UX design school Center Centre. Interested in hearing more about what Jared has to say about the security of UX? Watch the talk: Insecure and Unintuitive: Why We Need to Fix the Security of UX.

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