Trusted Key

This summer, I had the opportunity to work as a frontend design intern for Trusted Key, a startup in the identity space that uses blockchain to authenticate identity, create secure transactions, and allow for passwordless authentication in a variety of sectors from health to finance.

My main project while at Trusted Key was to completely redesign the Developer Portal, the interface between Trusted Key's technologies and developers. As part of this process, not only did I define key red routes and user interactions that developers would take, but I also completed both comparative and competitor analyses. The entire design process was extremeley iterative as I accounted for the needs of both engineers and management when considering my design decisions. I based my low-fidelity designs and mockups on how developers would interact with the page and their intentions as well as by industry standards for organization. After completing high-fidelity designs, I went on to use HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap to create the landing pages as well as modify the portal designs.

Context

As part of my summer internship work, I was thrown into the midst of a busy startup trying to improve not only its visual brand to other businesses but also its developer portal, the means for developers to interact with Trusted Key's technologies. As Trusted Key expanded, our goal was to create an easy to use and intuitive website that allowed users to understand the Trusted Key API and to skim the documentation, and to easily manage their Relying Party apps.

Below are the previous designs and implementations for both the developer landing page and the developer portal. At first glance, there are many visual inconsistencies, extraneous use of information/photos, and violations of the usability heuristics. Specifically, there was no match between the system and the real world as the developer portal did not use language and words that user's would understand. For example, I had to be onboarded and brought up to speed regarding what words like Relying Parties meant. Additionally, the previous design had little to no conssitency and standards, flexibility and efficiency of use, or aesthetic and minimalist design.

Research and Competitor Analysis & Ideation

Wireframes and Lo-Fi Mockups

Final Product

Reflections

I had a blast this summer! Huge shoutout to my mentor, Keith Kowal, and fellow intern Fang Shuo Deng for making this summer a great learning experience. Also big thanks to Krishnan Rajiyah and Alvin Verenkar for fun work lunches all summer long. Lastly, thanks to Prakash Sundaresan and Amit Jasuja for being such great bosses and providing great career advice!