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It turns out that cryptographic gobblediguuk is difficult for humans to understand. Even if your conscious mind knows it's a meaningless jumble of characters, y
by hypertele-Xii 4y ago
It turns out that cryptographic gobblediguuk is difficult for humans to understand. Even if your conscious mind knows it's a meaningless jumble of characters, your visual processing system evolved over millenia and honed with decades of schooling to read text fast is automatically failing to parse it in your visual field. So your users will self-train to ignore them.
A solution is to display the random nonsense as a unique image. More pleasant to look at, much easier to discern differences. There exist competing standards and services to generating images from random numbers, because it turns out the most universal way of doing this is abstract colorful shapes, which fall into that uncanny valley of approximating but not quite successfully imitating abstract art; And most people seem to think that's ugly.
Maybe that dall-e thing could generate good images to represent hashes? What does it output if one inputs nonsense?
- throwaway290 4y ago1. System assigns each user a random visually unique (no lookalikes) ID, and assigns a visually unique colorblind-friendly abstract image generated from user's ID (like you say) as default avatar. 2. User is free to change avatar and username, except there must be no visually similar avatar-username combinations across userbase. The restriction is enforced any time the user changes avatar or username. 3. System ID is shown to screen readers in place of avatar. 4. Whenever user interacts with another, if they have not communicated before, profile image or system ID is made more prominent for validation.