Why do system designers insist on bugging us to logon every time we want to do anything? In this blog, I’d like to pivot on the “IDAM/ICAM Industry” core premise that establishing the Identity of the person/non-person and Authentication are the objectives of most online systems. This is, perhaps, a technology/product-centric way of thinking. I … Continue reading Identification as the Objective for Designers

I’ve been thinking about “what’s next” in the world of wide-scale consumer authentication systems. We hear a loud proclamations for death to passwords, when what we all really want is just death to intrusive, poorly designed, stop-gap logon systems. So how should “better” be defined in this space? Here’s one proposal that might change our … Continue reading Account Recovery should be the main authentication flow!