Digital wallet

Context

While at PayIt, I worked on a white-label app for local US governments that helped collect payment for utilities, property taxes, vehicle registration, and other public services. During that time, we worked with the State of North Carolina to further digitise government services by reducing the need for citizens to store official receipts and documents in a file folders or hunt through email. We were challenged to consider how we might store those same official documents digitally while retaining their authenticity and validity for official purposes like proving vehicle registration or property tax payment.

 

Problem

Storing paper copies of receipts and official documents is tedious and prone to loss. Younger citizens are looking for updated, modern solutions to document storage. Governments need those documents to look and feel official as well as be difficult to counterfeit.

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Process

I requested copies of all of the State's paper-issued documents and certificates and saw that most used the local county or State's seal as a watermark or stamp to indicate the document's authenticity. I began to explore what the digital version of this could be and came across interlaced spiral guilloche patterns in modern currency.