Oh yeah, that’s what we’ve been working on for many months. I made a video about our process for designing the initial onboarding to the network. It doesn’t cover the creating old an identity, just the bit before that… but I can give you some idea of what the experience will be like. It’s harder and more complicated to explain these concepts than it is to actually use the thing, as most of the UI patterns will seem pretty familiar.
Once you’ve grabbed yourself an account—as per the video—you’ll be prompted to create a SafeID should you wish it. It’s pretty easy:
Each identity you create will have a history accessible to you only, together with payments sent to/via it, and you can also see (and customise) your public facing profile for that identity.
And you can access all your identities, and create new ones, in one place too:
Sending payments will be pretty straightforward. All you really need it the recipients SafeID…
(Or event faster if you check out the ‘action menu’ approach shown in last week’s dev update.)
Plus doing things anonymously is simple too, an one-time wallet is generated for me on the fly, and the funds are then bounced via that from/to my wallet:
This is the very basics, and the practical mechanics of the ecommerce I haven’t gone in to here. But you could think of it as a site owner including a small snippet of code alongside the product they are selling, with the browser handling the shopping cart and instigating the payment via the identity selected by the customer. Although that won’t form part of the initial UX we are building, but I’m keen to get it working as close to launch as we can.