📰 Dev.to · soma ryuu

The people who redesigned Web3 from the outside in were frustrated users first. That frustration is the design brief most teams never write.

Aave, Compound, and Curve are technically excellent. They all fail at the same three moments. Here is exactly what goes wrong.

MetaMask was first, biggest, and most funded. It still lost the interface war. The reason is not technical.

Three products define Web3 design. Everyone references them. Almost nobody copies the actual decision that made them work.

A practical checklist for catching the UX failures that no smart contract audit covers, before your users find them.

The design talent shortage in Web3 is not about money. It is about the conditions teams create before they hire.

Why many crypto brands get weaker after launch, and how teams can design for trust after the initial hype cycle.

Most DeFi dashboards show numbers. Better ones explain what those numbers mean for the user's next decision.

Why better Web3 onboarding is less about hiding wallets and more about making every risky step legible.

Design in Web3 is a contested topic. Founders disagree. Builders disagree. And the products reflect...

There is a persistent myth in product design that usability and aesthetics are in tension. That...

DeFi dashboards are some of the hardest UI problems in product design. You are asking people to make...