So about a year and a half ago, we built multi-factor authentication (MFA) in from scratch,” Vermaat explains. “Creatives use WeTransfer to share work with their clients, and they need to do so securely.
WeTransfer wanted to upgrade its siloed identity in two ways: improving its customers’ ability to use each of their products, and keeping their users’ data even more secure. “We also wanted a unified way to communicate with our users from a marketing perspective, which is hard to do when a user has a unique identity on each product.”įocus on Core Product Leads WeTransfer to External Solutions “People expect to be able to use one account to access all of the products that a multi-product company offers these days,” Martijn Vermaat, Senior Engineering Manager, explains. However, each of its products handled user identities on their own systems, and WeTransfer knew it needed to rethink its approach to authentication if it wanted to increase adoption of its products. WeTransfer’s set of tools are specifically designed to enable creative professionals to inspire, conceive, share, and deliver their work. Having made its name in the game of quick and simple file-sharing, WeTransfer has grown into an end-to-end suite of digital solutions with more than 70 million monthly active users in 190 countries. But WeTransfer is more than just a file transfer service for creatives.
If you’re looking for more doodling inspiration, check out my posts on how to draw a portrait with Apple Pencil and 101 Digital Touch sketch ideas.Every month, creatives in 190 countries use WeTransfer’s platform to send and exchange around two billion files every month. But the Paper Store may just provide a solution.
I know several friends who bought an Apple Pencil that ended up permanently clipped to the side of their iPad Pro or lost at the back of a drawer because they couldn’t think of how to use it. I’m really looking forward to seeing how the Paper Store develops. While some of the journals may feel a bit weak, the overall launch offering is impressive. It feels like WeTransfer missed a trick here. I’d love to be able to browse a gallery of how other users have responded to these prompts. For example, the Creative Creatures journal invites you to draw hybrid animals, like a pig-shark or a panda-horse. I’d like to see a gallery where you can share your doodles. The most notable omission from Paper, in my opinion, is the absence of any social component. If I go to the trouble of writing text in a journal, I expect to be able to search, copy and paste it. The absence of handwriting recognition here is a massive omission. And in Recipe Notebook and Planners, you are expected to write text with your Apple Pencil. The only twist is that the lines are a bit wonky.
For example, Wabi-Sabi is just an empty, ruled exercise book. Learn to Draw Portraits provides a practical starting point for tracing photos.īut some of the journals do feel a bit more like fillers. Tiny Meditation provides a unique and fun introduction to mindfulness. It reminded me of the classic Wooly Willy toy, where you use a “magic wand” with a magnet on the end to create hairstyles out of metal filings. Draw Hair is as ridiculously silly as it sounds, but it’s actually lots of fun. The Science of Doodling Flowers is a clever way of enhancing your doodling powers while learning something about the structure of plants at the same time. The cover designs alone are so nice that it’s a pleasure to scroll through the store.
Most of them cost 1 credit ($1.99), but there are a few free ones to try out. At launch, the Paper Store offers 28 journals to choose from.