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PFP NFTs as Identity & Community Membership | NFT Design Course 2022

If one-of-a-kind cryptomedia enables digital art, then collections enable digital community. PFP (“profile picture”) collections are the most popular, and are composed of similarly-themed cartoon avatars. All the avatars together represent an internet collective, yet each avatar is unique in appearance from all others in the collection. Source Users signal their membership to the overall collective by owning an avatar, often setting the avatar as their social media profile picture (hence “PFP”). So the avatar Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago

Rare NFTs & Marketplaces | NFT Design Course 2022

Source Perhaps the most obvious use-case for cryptomedia is one-of-a-kind digital art. Some cryptomedia artists have made millions selling their cryptomedia creations with top mentions including Beeple, Pak, TYLERXHOBBS, XCOPY, and others. Remember, cryptomedia encompasses all types of media and can range from static images, gifs, videos, 3D models, and blog posts. Source I personally like the audio + video combos by artists like Grimes and Fvckrender. Check it out with the link above. Source Some of the original Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago

NFTs & Cryptomedia for Web3 Creatives | NFT Design Course 2022

Digital files are not scarce. We can duplicate digital files on our computer any number of times, or send them to thousands of friends, all with the click of a button, at no cost. There is great utility in this. Information transfer is instant and free, and the worldwide web acts as a public repository for all human knowledge. However, this poses a problem for digital creatives. Humans value scarcity making it difficult to earn Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago

Cryptomedia and NFTs for Web3 Creatives | NFT Design Course 2022

This NFT Design Course will help product designers and digital creatives harness the power of cryptomedia and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This course teaches you the fundamentals of what cryptomedia is, important NFT product categories, and emerging NFT trends. It’s totally free to read or watch. Introduction to Cryptomedia & Digital Scarcity Digital files are not scarce. We can duplicate digital files on our computer any number of times, or send them to thousands of friends, Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago

DeFi 2.0 Protocol Design Trends 2022 | DeFi for UX Designers

This article will give UX Designers an understanding of emerging concepts in DeFi 2.0, like protocol controlled value and liquidity as a service. OlympusDAO is a great example of both of these. This is part of an overall Web3 Design Bootcamp that teaches UX Designers about Web3 concepts and design patterns so they can land a job in the rapidly merging field. We know that liquidity is important in all aspects of DeFi. Without tokens Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago

DeFi 2.0 Design Trends 2022 | DeFi for UX Designers

This article will give UX Designers an understanding the stablecoins wars that are currently being waged. Many types of stablecoins exist – we’ll talk about what has worked, and what is currently being experimented on in the area of algorithmic and non-pegged stablecoins – very cool stuff! This is part of an overall Web3 Design Bootcamp that teaches UX Designers about Web3 concepts and design patterns so they can land a job in the rapidly Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago

Zerion Web3 Design Patterns 2022 | DeFi for UX Designers

This article will give UX Designers an understanding of DeFi dashboards that brings many DeFi protocols together into one single UI. This is part of an overall Web3 Design Bootcamp that teaches UX Designers about Web3 concepts and design patterns so they can land a job in the rapidly merging field. DeFi dashboards provide the user access to multiple DeFi protocols all from one UI. The first way to think of these dashboards is that Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago

Yearn Finance Web3 Design Patterns 2022 | DeFi for UX Designers

This article will give UX Designers an understanding automated yield farming dApps, like the all-popular Yearn Finance. This is part of an overall Web3 Design Bootcamp that teaches UX Designers about Web3 concepts and design patterns so they can land a job in the rapidly merging field. Yearn Finance was one of the first yield aggregators. On Yearn, DeFi experts propose yield farming strategies and implement them as Yearn vaults that Web3 users can deposit Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago

Curve Web3 Design Patterns 2022 | DeFi for UX Designers

This article will give UX Designers an understanding of staking tokens and yield farming in DeFi. This is how people earn yield on their crypto. This article is part of an overall Web3 Design Bootcamp that teaches UX Designers about Web3 concepts and design patterns so they can land a job in the rapidly merging field. Staking is the idea of locking tokens to receive other additional token rewards, paid out over time. This is Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago

MakerDAO Web3 Design Patterns 2022 | DeFi for UX Designers

This article will give UX Designers an understanding of the importance of stablecoins, and show how to mint stablecoins on the highly popular DeFi protocol, MakerDAO. This is part of an overall Web3 Design Bootcamp that teaches UX Designers about Web3 concepts and design patterns so they can land a job in the rapidly merging field. In the previous section, we swapped ETH for DAI stablecoins on Uniswap, but this is a secondary market for Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago