A big effort was made to create a single solution for signing into the mobile apps. At the time, teams were responsible for implementing their own account management experience. This led to inconsistent user experiences across the Yahoo family of mobile apps, and major user frustrations with needing to constantly remember the password. As a consequence, users often had to go through an account recovery flow, which was another barrier to getting into the product. My team successfully created an SDK that optimized all processes related to account management - sign in, new account registration, account recovery, second login challenge, and single sign on (SSO). SSO was a key new feature that allows the user to sign in only once in a Yahoo app. If another Yahoo app was also on the phone, the user would automatically be signed into that as well. Hence minimizing the need to remember forgotten passwords. The SDK was developed for iOS and Android.
Account & Identity Management
