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How Human-Centric Design is Reshaping Cybersecurity
How Human-Centric Design is Reshaping Cybersecurity

September 15, 2021

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We live in a world where Data and Information are the most precious thing for any organization. It allows us to determine the cause of the problem, enhances efficiency, and improves our decision-making skills significantly.

Thus, we need extensive protection to protect our Data & Information from any potential threat.


Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting our systems, networks, and programs from these digital threats. In order to protect our data, we need to understand the importance of Cybersecurity UX and how it can protect us from these threats.

Cybersecurity products and solutions will protect your data. The users of these products must understand the system and perform the primary functions efficiently. They must understand and comply with the fundamental Data Security principles like choosing strong passwords, being wary of attachments in email, backing up data, etc.

The most common breach in cybersecurity is by human error. Cybercriminals know what they're doing and mainly prey on those who have a lesser understanding of their system. Having a general knowledge about your programs can protect you from compromising your valuable data.

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We need to build human-centric design solutions where our software, networks, and platforms are focused on human needs, capabilities, and behavior.


Human-centric design is a process in which we consider all the aspects of behavior such as likes, dislikes, interests, experience, and challenges the user faces. While developing a product, the main focus is on the user and how he/she can adapt this UX Product Design to get the maximum benefit out of it, how the user can perform the tasks to the best of their ability in less time, etc.


It has always been a struggle for our information security industry to interpret complex and technical terms into simple information for users. The product users can belong to the naive and/or expert category. The product should be able to seamlessly address all of their concerns effectively and efficiently.

In the field of Cybersecurity UX, we need to understand that we are designing this technology to help our users interact with the products easily. Every UX Design Company in the industry has shifted its attention towards its users to give them an intuitive user experience.


With the developing technology, we need to direct our advancement towards users as well, and how they use technology for their betterment.


When we design for the users, we give them a sense of understanding. Each step is directed to fulfill their needs to solve their problem and to let them access this information.


We need to adopt a data-driven method of portraying this information to the users in more insightful ways. This is what human-centric design means.

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The human deficiency of interacting with the product is one of the main causes of a breach. This lack of information can be related to the following problems:

  1. Limited understanding of the product
  2. Locating and tracking the features
  3. Coping up with difficult and technical tasks performing
  4. Identifying potential errors
  5. These errors can be minimized through a human-centric approach for cybersecurity designs.
  6. Human-centered designs are considered to be safe by design and can help you protect yourself from this situation.
  7. It is collaborative, innovative, and broad in nature when it comes to optimizing the designs.

The best approach to creating a human-centric design are:

  • Inspire your Design approach

Create a design that identifies the problem and innovatively presents a modified solution.

  • Work on new Ideas

Come up with a plan as to what changes can be helpful and components that could be needed to get an appropriate solution.

  • Create a Prototype to Test

Based on your ideation, create a working design that can be tested.

  • Implement the design in your Platform

Finally, update your previous platform with a new solution that can safeguard your users from any threats in the future.

We all need to break this conventional way of UX Cybersecurity and adopt the innovative Human-Centric Design process. Every industry in the market can benefit from this sort of collaborative, innovative, iterative, and customer-based way of doing things.


Cybersecurity UX may sound a bit complex to you, but it doesn’t have to be with the help of Human-Centric Design/ Design thinking.!


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