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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.

A big step forward: Expert review of the new IRMA app

Early on in the IRMA made easy project, we conducted an expert evaluation of the IRMA app. You can find a blog post detailing our findings here. One of our main goals for our project was to eliminate the usability problems found in the old version of IRMA. While we originally had planned to improve the IRMA app step by step, things turned out even better: Around the start of our project, we learned that the municipality of Amsterdam (and specifically Mike Alders) was designing an ideal identity management app....