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IRMA made easy

IRMA made easy is a project about improving the usability, accessibility and overall user experience of the increasingly popular identity management app IRMA️. It is funded by NLnet foundation️ and carried out at iHub, Radboud University. This blog documents our underlying motivations, project activities and progress in chronological order. It features project deliverables as well as posts on related activities that also aim at making IRMA more user-friendly. Simply put, you have come to the right place if you are interested in how the IRMA user experience is improving.

Facilitating a quick start: Exploring possibilities for an IRMA wizard

The identity-management app IRMA is designed as a digital wallet that holds a user’s personal information in the form of virtual cards. These cards can contain all kinds of details, such as a user’s name, address, age, email address, mobile number and more. Users obtain these cards from trusted sources, such as the municipality of Nijmegen, which issues the information from the Dutch Personal Records Database to everyone living in the Netherlands....

Pretty verifier names

The IRMA app is a digital wallet that holds personal information, such as a user’s name, mobile number and citizen service number. IRMA allows users to disclose this information to requesting parties, e.g., to log in to a website. A core principle of IRMA is that users are in control about whether they disclose their data. To decide this, users need to know who is asking for their information, what information is requested from them, why it is required and how it will be used....