The FIDO Alliance has released updated design guidelines aimed at optimizing the user experience (UX) for signing in with passkeys.
The guidelines are intended to support designers, engineers, product managers, content strategists, and UX researchers in implementing and expanding passkey usage. Available on the FIDO Alliance website, they emphasize creating a consistent and user-friendly experience to enhance adoption and deployment of passwordless authentication.
The guidelines include sections on user experience research, UX and content principles, initial and optional design patterns, and additional resources such as events and community groups. They were developed by the FIDO UX Working Group, consisting of 131 professionals from 31 global brands, in collaboration with usability research firm Blink UX and support from industry partners like 1Password, Dashlane, Google, HID, Trusona, U.S. Bank, and Yubico.
“As organizations are increasingly deploying passwordless authentication based on FIDO standards around the world, the end users of passkeys – along with the practitioners implementing them – have become top priorities for successful adoption,” said Andrew Shikiar, Executive Director and CEO of the FIDO Alliance. “Our research shows consumers and employees are adopting phishing-resistant passkeys at a rapid pace while relying organizations are experiencing cost savings and fewer security incidents.”
The concept of passkeys emerged through a collaboration among major tech companies Apple, Google, and Microsoft, rooted in efforts by the FIDO Alliance, which was formed in 2012. The FIDO Alliance developed the passkeys with an aim to overcome the limitations of traditional passwords by creating open standards for stronger authentication, with members including biometrics specialists like HYPR and Nok Nok Labs.
FIDO released its first set of standards in 2014, , leading to the development of passwordless authentication methods. The WebAuthn standard, introduced in 2019 and quickly adopted by major browsers, paved the way for passkeys, which use FIDO’s protocols to link authentication credentials with users’ mobile biometric systems.
Source: FIDO Alliance
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May 31, 2024 – by Ali Nassar-Smith
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