Discussion Archive: March 2009

ixd failure(?) exploited for voting fraud

The entire article is worth reading (and has actual hot links), but I'll
call out how the design failure(?) was exploited by pollworkers to
change votes:

<http://www.crypto.com/blog/vote_fraud_in_kentucky/>

[...]

The Kentucky officials are accused of taking advantage of a somewhat
confusing aspect of the way the iVotronic interface was implemented.
In particular, the behavior (as described in the indictment)
of the version of the iVotronic used in Clay County
apparently differs a bit from the behavior described in ES&amp

the little pointy hand

If you are on a mac and press command-Tab to switch apps, you will see your
cursor will change from the arrow to a pointing hand. We know this cursor is
good for pointing out links or buttons, particularly for the web. At first I
blamed the inconsistency on an oversight, which is common on web apps (Gmail
only changes the cursor for underlined text, Reader doesn't). But this
cursor is rarely used at the OS level; someone had to make the decision to
make the switch. Do you know why? I can't.

Different form fields: mobile v. computer browsers?

Hello,

We are creating a page which includes an input field asking for a
user's e-mail address paired with a second field asking them to
retype it to confirm.

This page will also be offered for users visiting with a mobile
browser and we have been debating whether to drop the confirmation
field for mobile users since it would seem to be more of a nuisance
in that context.

Is the assumption that we should drop these "luxury" fields for
users with mobile browsers a good one? On the one hand, it saves them
time and effort.

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