Paradigm change of personal identity management
♻️ Paradigm change of personal identity management
Hi there, I'm no professional UI designer, nevertheless here are my suggestions to rethink the future design of Proton Pass.
My opinion is that redesigning should take care of the main purpose of the application and the future usage trends .
🌏 Context
Today, Proton Pass is only seen as a password manager with identity add-on. There is a huge movement to change the IT environment to evolve to a much more privacy respecting paradigm.
Blockchain is the founding brick of this movement and it is about to be rebuilt with privacy by design in mind (ZKP, FHE).
💡 Idea
Considering multiple experiences I already made in this area, the critical element missing is an efficient and user friendly identity manager . This should not only cover websites and aliases, but also wallet addresses which also represent an identity in Web3/crypto.
🔜 It's not about just group data within a password container and moving fields around anymore. In my opinion it's about restructuring the data around specific identities you use to order a pizza, connect to a gaming site and also connect to a crypto dApp to perform transactions. The central element should be the identity .
✅ Reflection points
I don't have a clear view of how it could look like at the moment, however I already know that:
- it must have a much more accessible design than Proton Pass has currently with identities and aliases which are two distinct entries thus giving a cluttered display
- crypto wallets must be a part of the identity management (they're already replacing e-mail addresses in Web3 >> DMail for instance)
- as I am writing these lines, I realize that the boundary between an identity manager and a crypto wallet gets thinner and thinner...