How to design browser security and privacy alerts
This work provides practical guidance for designers and developers to improve user communication of risk in browser alerts, but it is incremental as it synthesizes existing research rather than introducing new methods.
The researchers tackled the problem of designing effective browser security and privacy alerts by conducting a systematic review of literature to derive design guidelines, resulting in a comprehensive set of guidelines and an alert template for designers and developers.
It is important to design browser security and privacy alerts so as to maximise their value to the end user, and their efficacy in terms of communicating risk. We derived a list of design guidelines from the research literature by carrying out a systematic review. We analysed the papers both quantitatively and qualitatively to arrive at a comprehensive set of guidelines. Our findings aim to to provide designers and developers with guidance as to how to construct privacy and security alerts. We conclude by providing an alert template,highlighting its adherence to the derived guidelines.