Prototypes
Theory is fine, but to test our hypotheses we really needed to build things which relied upon them.

Theory is fine, but to test our hypotheses we really needed to build things which relied upon them.

We needed a new way for users to recover accounts, this is the story of how we created an entirely new way to recover an account designed around the needs and skills of ordinary people.
For crypto to be able to transition into the 'real world' its speed and power at processing transactions will need to be met by equally powerful checks on senders and receivers of funds.
Really good UX ensures processes like checking liveness don't get in the way of the user as they try to do something. We explore how liveness at Self has evolved.