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Published inMay 2022
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Will Grant
Will Grant
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Will Grant

Will Grant is a British UI/UX expert and a digital product designer. He is a web technology entrepreneur with over 25 years' experience, leading teams (and products) at the intersection of technology and usability. After his Computer Science degree, Will trained with Jakob Nielsen and Bruce Tognazzini at the Nielsen Norman Group – the world leaders in usable design. Since then, Will has overseen the user experience and interaction design of several large-scale web sites and apps, reaching over a billion users in the process. Will is a "design purist" and obsessed with building beautiful, compelling, and familiar products that customers intuitively know how to use.
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Streamline Creating and Entering Passwords

It still makes sense to obfuscate passwords as they’re being entered, but let’s be real, shoulder-surfing isn’t possible when you’re signing in to an app on your couch.

Providing a “show password” toggle is not only great for usability but also improves security: users can enter longer, more complex pass-phrases and be confident that they can retype them correctly. Default to obfuscating the password, but provide a checkbox or toggle that allows the user to see their password.

Yes, I know we should all be using a password manager (a plugin that generates and stores all your site passwords for you), but the fact remains that most regular users don’t.

Show the password strength rules. Don’t make users try and try again to enter passwords, only to be told later that they need to have a certain obscure combination of letters, numbers, and symbols. Show the user the rules the...

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101 UX Principles – 2nd edition - Second Edition
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Will Grant

Will Grant is a British UI/UX expert and a digital product designer. He is a web technology entrepreneur with over 25 years' experience, leading teams (and products) at the intersection of technology and usability. After his Computer Science degree, Will trained with Jakob Nielsen and Bruce Tognazzini at the Nielsen Norman Group – the world leaders in usable design. Since then, Will has overseen the user experience and interaction design of several large-scale web sites and apps, reaching over a billion users in the process. Will is a "design purist" and obsessed with building beautiful, compelling, and familiar products that customers intuitively know how to use.
Read more about Will Grant