Principles are based on scientific sources.
| Name | Clarity |
| Sources | (Yee, 2002) |
| Synonyms | Foresight |
| Intent | The effect of any security-relevant action must be clearly apparent to the user before the action is taken. |
| Motivation | The interface must be clear not only with regard to granting or revoking authorities; the consequences of any security-relevant decision, such as the decision to reveal sensitive information, should be clear. All the information necessary to make a good decision should be accurate and available before an action is taken, not afterwards, when it may be too late. |
| Examples | None |
| Guidelines | Design guidelines for security management systems Guidelines used to redesign warnings Recommendations for improving the design of phishing indicators Usable set-up of security policies Warning Design Guidelines (Item 1) |
| Tags | Fail Safety, Expectation Conformity, Risk |
| Log history | [02/14/2016]: Added to repository |
Yee, K.-P., 2002. User interaction design for secure systems, in: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS ’02. Springer-Verlag, London, UK, UK, pp. 278–290.