Deciphering Web3, designing for all humans, and the vanishing designer

A weekly curated list of resources for designers and product leaders (002)

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5 min readJul 12, 2022

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Every week, I bring you topnotch articles, tools, templates, products and design Inspirations within the design industry to help you become a better designer.

Web3 is undoubtedly the next frontier for innovation and technology, we are at the beginning of another era of the internet, a more connected, transparent, and ownership-centric internet. As designers we sit at the heart of this movement, ensuring the solutions we create are usable and simplify complexity just enough for mass adoption.

This week’s list is a compilation of resources to get started in web3 design, design tips, and tools to improve your workflow, productivity, and skillset.

Articles

Learn the principles →
“A framework of UX rules for Blockchain-based Distributed Applications” by beltran
Where passion and talent meet →
“10 things I’ve learned designing for decentralized finance (Defi)” by Jon Crabb
Trustless systems→
“Less Trust, More Truth: Web3 Design Best Practices and Patterns” by Mayank Sharma of Toptal
Important links →
“Roundup of lots of recent posts on crypto tokens” by Chris Dixon
Trust, transparency, & ownership →
“Designing for Blockchain: Three Ways to Get Started” by Tara Tan of IDEO

Despite all the media hype about the rise and fall of cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology is still in its infancy, meaning it’s an ideal time for designers to step in and help build new systems. — Tara Tan | IDEO

**A Brief History of the Hamburger Icon** by Antonio Freyre of blog.placeit.net

Videos

Behind the scene →
“Designing for Blockchain — Tara Tan — SFDW 2018”
Avoid technical jargon, Conversational UX →
“UX Design for Blockchain, How to Design Ethereum Apps with Nisa Andrews”
Human-centered design →
“Designing for the Humans of Web3 — Yang You”
Deep to the roots →
“Design with EU — A deep dive into Web3 and the Blockchain with Druids and Aise”
Practice — Rinse repeat →
“UX Ideation Challenge: Blockchain and Web3 Powered Future CX”
Designing Web3 products →
“Genius Call 01: Product Design in Web3 with Greg Isenberg”
Next-gen systems and standards →
“Web3 Design Systems — components and design standards for better dApp UX (Devcon4)”
List of video presentations on web3 design →
“Devcon content curated and organized for your discovery and learning.”

**Making of A Brief Visual Exploration of A Dictionary of Typography** Image source: Archive.org

Tools and resources

One to rule them all →
“One Figma component — 3,360 Variants” by Luke Cardoni
Do more with Figma →
“Collaboration in Figma just got (even) better — with widgets” by Inês Alves
Get more done →
“15 Tools to Increase your Productivity as a (UI/UX) Designer” by Alexandra (Gurita) Mihai
Building complex systems with Bubble.io→
“Converting Legacy Microsoft applications to Bubble.io web apps” by Will Ericksson

Visionary designers have lost their conceptual integrity to an industrial complex optimized for consensus, predictability, and short-term business gain. The rise of data-driven culture cultivated a generation of designers who only take risk-free and success-guaranteed steps towards the inevitable local maxima of design monotony. — Chuánqi Sun