June 1, 2023, 6:38 p.m. | Christopher Cavalea

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My spicy hot opinion of the week: passwords are bad UX.


Why do we force users to create passwords? Better yet, why do we force them to create a password, impose significant limitations on how they create it, and then punish them if they cannot remember it?


We live in an internet age, where web applications assist in essential and common human interactions every second of every day. Every one of those web applications requires that users create a password. …

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