Patterns — explain

• Informed Secure Passwords

  Ensure that users maintain healthy authentication habits through awareness and understanding.

• Layered Policy Design

  Make privacy policies easier for users to understand by layering detail behind successively more concise and summarized information.

• Privacy Labels

  Standardize warning labels similar to nutrition information to quickly inform users about privacy policies and preferences.

• Privacy icons

  A privacy policy which is hard to understand by general audience is summarized and translated into commonly agreed visual icons. A privacy icon is worth a thousand-word policy.

• Privacy-Aware Network Client

  Enhance user awareness of privacy policies by automatically converting it into a standardized and easily readable format over a secure channel.

• Privacy Color Coding

  Provide visual cues in standardized colors about privacy policies and preferences to help convey information to users more quickly.

• Appropriate Privacy Icons

  Use consistent icons in place of policy aspects. The icons should convey these aspects reliably, without allowing room for misinterpretation once explained to the user.

• Icons for Privacy Policies

  Icons are capable of conveying information more quickly than a document, and are therefore a useful way to augment policies.

• Impactful Information and Feedback

  Provide feedback about who a user will disclose their information to using certain privacy settings before that information is actually published.

• Informed Credential Selection

  Ensure users are informed of the potential privacy consequences of sharing various authenticating data.

• Privacy Aware Wording

  Ensure that the content of privacy related information provided to the user is worded carefully, maintaining both attention and understanding.