pswds
A NEW way of remembering passwords
PROJECT OVERVIEW
The project emerged as an experiment to research and address today’s need of remembering a large number of passwords and codes.
ROLE
Ux Designer
METHODS
Empathetic User-Research
Interviews
Personas
Wireframing
Prototyping
Visual Design
DESIGN TOOLS
Sketch
Invision
Adobe Suite
Iterative Ideation
After a first meticulous research based analysis of daily bugs and issues using multiple creative techniques, a series of ideas where generated as a result of the application of those techniques on the subject of security and password management.
Interview & Persona
High reliability sensing of customer desires is required in order to produce better fulfilment with a specific design. Along these lines, a first meticulous interview questionnaire was developed to constantly reconfigure my understanding in prospect of the final user experience. In this way, a better and, perhaps, a more innovative outcome would be achieved following first hand in-depth interviewing to gather useful natural data, in an environment which engages natural and individual behaviours.
Hypotheses
In-dept reviewing highlighted an interest in creative solutions for passwords compilation and ways of remembering them. The recurrent conception resulting from the analysis of the actual persona propose the possibility of utilising drawing and unconventional passwords recognition patterns to relief the stress of remembering multitudes of passwords. For this reasons, the ideas that will be moved to the next prototyping phase are the possibility of using algorithms, to generate images in which the user has to select the correct ones, and the chance of using movement and gestures for unlocking accounts.
Low-fidelity prototypes
Utilising Snyder (2003) fast prototyping generative technique of creating low-res quick drafts, two iterations of the previous hypotheses where developed to be tested by willing subjects.
The first one explores the possibility of remembering a series of images instead of numbers and letters.
The second one utilises gestures and movements instead of passwords.
User Testing
Key findings:
Deep interest in utilising images as a fast and secure way to unlock various accounts.
Plausible integration of random imaginary, which follows user’s inputs in order to trick in error thief and scammers.
Open towards the solutions in regards of smaller not financial accounts.
Reluctancy to change traditional scheme of security identification for important financial platforms, such as banking and university ones.
Found similarities and easy of use of between Miller’s inspired finger tracking unlocking mechanism and apple fingerprint technology.
The faster setup configurator the better it is to not feel overly stressed by new accounts.
Interest in not following traditional means of password generation techniques; Appreciation in not having to utilise words, symbols, numbers, caps limitations to create passwords.
