Development and Assessment of User Interface for Security-Critical Systems

In this master's thesis a user interface for a security application was investigated. The thesis work was done at a security company in Sweden. The goal was to find current problems with the user interface and to develop a new prototype with improvements. A user-centered design approach was employed to achieve this. Another goal was to look at how this method works for security-critical systems and how usability affects security. By conducting a usability test, usability errors were found that affected information security. There were also other problems that arose when having to deal with trying to use a user-centered design approach when working for a security company