Why this blog?
Most web3 user interfaces suck.
And many people building in the crypto space aren't interested in lessons from the past.
From their perspective breaking from old standards is core to web3 DNA and everything is a candidate for revolutionary redesign. As a result, we often see terrible user experiences and monstrously confusing web3 products produced by teams ignorant of even basic best practices.
It's true – the underlying technology is able to do things that have never been imaginable before, but the average users don't understand it, let alone use it.
At Openprest we’ve been living at the intersection of product design and crypto for the last 5 years, and we thought this blog could be a great opportunity to share what we study and learn about web3.
Whether you are a product manager, a product designer, or a software engineer, we hope this would be the place you regularly check to learn about web3 UX patterns, access unique research-based articles, discover new and useful GUI designs, and learn how to design the apps of tomorrow.
About Openprest®
Openprest® is an international Studio as a Service founded by Leonardo Federico and headquartered in Switzerland. We exist to help founders build useful products and create delightful experiences at an accessible, predictable monthly fee.
We take an active part in the crypto community, attending events and immersing ourselves in the possibilities of new decentralized technologies. This translates into our ideas, outputs, and how we define different.
We are designing tools that power DAOs coordination, engineering new spaces in the metaverse, helping DeFi products projects reach new heights, and advancing the future economics of the music business through web3 technologies and values.
Openprest.com is a humble attempt to narrow the chams between the wisdom of the recent past and the speed of the future. Creating web3 products that are useful and unique. That are beautiful and usable. And that bring new perspectives, but never at the expense of greater surface complexity.