Usability

F-Droid: A new UX 6 years in the making

April 17, 2017

(post by Peter Serwylo) F-Droid has been a part of the Android ecosystem for over 6 years now. Since then, over 2000 apps have been built for the main …

F-Droid Lubbock Report – What We Want to Know

April 17, 2017

F-Droid LBK Usability Study Report – What We Want to Know Prepared by Carrie Winfrey Preliminary Version – April 17, 2017 Introduction When planning …

Imagining the challenges of developers in repressive environments

January 26, 2017

The Guardian Project team spends a lot of time thinking about users. In our work we focus on easy-to-use applications for users in high-risk …

PanicKit: making your whole phone respond to a panic button

January 12, 2016

Our mobile devices do so many things for us, making it easy to communicate with people in all manners while giving us access to all sorts of …

Good translations are essential to usability

December 9, 2015

All too often, translation of an app are treated as an afterthought. It is not something that the app developers see, since they create the software …

Introducing TrustedIntents for Android

July 30, 2014

Following up on our research on secure Intent interactions, we are now announcing the first working version of the TrustedIntents library for Android. …

Integrating Crypto Identities with Android

December 28, 2013

ver the past couple of years, Android has included a central database for managing information about people, it is known as the ContactsContract …

Keys, signatures, certificates, verifications, etc. What are all these for?

December 12, 2013

For the past two years, we have been thinking about how to make it easier for anyone to achieve private communications. One particular focus has been …

Your own private dropbox with free software

November 12, 2013

There are lots of file storage and sharing software packages out there that make it easy for a group of people to share files. Dropbox is perhaps the …

Gibberbot’s “ChatSecure” MakeOver: Almost Done!

September 20, 2013

In a previous post with the mouthful of a title “Modernizing Expectations for the Nouveau Secure Mobile Messaging Movement”, I spoke about all of the …