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Open Source Software Mental Models | Web3 for UX Designers

This article will give Web3 product designers an understanding of the foundational internet protocols that literally billions of users rely on everyday. This is a lead into discussing the evolution of the internet from Web1 to Web3. Understanding internet protocols will help you understand blockchain protocols, and the disruptive innovation of Web3 tokens. Stay tuned for future Web3 Design Courses where we deep-dive into products in the Web3 ecosystem. Software protocols have been crucial in Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago

Design for Open Source Web3 Projects | Crypto Design Trends 2022

In the previous Blockchain Design Course module we talked about blockchains – the technology that underlies Web3. These are sometimes referred to as Layer 1 protocols. Blockchain protocols defines how nodes communicate, and come to consensus, with each other in order to form a functioning cryptonetwork. Everything is centered around the cryptonetwork’s native Web3 token. In this article we will about about Web3 tokens in general: both utility and security tokens, as well as fungible Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago

Future of Blockchains for Product Designers | Learn Blockchain for Beginners 2022

This article will give Web3 product designers an understanding of what the blockchain landsacpe looks like today, and where things are heading in the future. We discuss the present era of Blockchain 3.0. Stay tuned for future Web3 Design Courses where we discuss emerging dApps that will disrupt the internet as we know it today. Right now we are witnessing rapid growth in the emerging layer 1 blockchain landscape. Ethereum is undergoing major reconstruction in Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago

Blockchain UX Case-Study 2022 | Learn Blockchain for Beginners

This article will give Web3 product designers an understanding of how to compare Layer 1 blockchains. By the way, stay tuned for future Web3 Design Courses where we discuss other Web3 products that will disrupt the internet as we know it today. Let’s discuss the framework for comparing Layer 1 Smart Contract Blockchains developed by The BLOCK Research. The research compares Layer 1s across 4-dimensions: Technical Design & Performance On-Chain and Ecosystem Data Tokenomics and Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago

Ethereum for Product Designers | Learn Blockchain for Beginners 2022

This article will give Web3 product designers an understanding of where blockchains came from, what the current blockchain landscape looks like, and where blockchains are headed in the future. We move to Blockchain 2.0 and Ethereum the most dominant smart contract blockchain at present. Stay tuned for future Web3 Design Courses where we discuss other Web3 products that will disrupt the internet as we know it today. If Bitcoin is like the calculator app on Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago

Bitcoin for Product Designers | Learn Blockchain for Beginners 2022

This article will give Web3 product designers an understanding of where blockchains came from, what the current blockchain landscape looks like, and where blockchains are headed in the future. We start with Bitcoin – the world’s first ever blockchain. Stay tuned for future Web3 Design Courses where we discuss emerging dApps that will disrupt the internet as we know it today. Bitcoin was created by an anonymous figure, named Satoshi Nakamoto, and released as open Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago

Blockchains for Product Designers | Blockchain Design Course 2022

Blockchains enable Web3. Without blockchains, we wouldn’t have crypto tokens and most of the decentralized applications that are running today. This article will give Web3 product designers an understanding of where blockchains came from, what the current blockchain landscape looks like, and where blockchains are headed in the future. This is an extension of the Web3 Design Course 2022. If you haven’t read that – I recommend starting there. Bitcoin was created by an anonymous Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago

dApps for UX Designers | Learn Web3 Product Design 2022

Now that we’ve learned what a blockchain is, and understand how transactions flow through the network, let’s return back to decentralized applications, or dApps. In this section, we will break down what exactly a dApp is. We’ll start by quickly reviewing the software architecture of Web2 applications then compare it to that of Web3 dApps. And, this is just the beginning of Web3 tutorials for product designers. Stay tuned for future Web3 Design Courses where Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago

Ethereum for UX Designers | Learn Web3 Product Design 2022

In this section we’re going to talk about what happens on the Ethereum when a crypto wallet sends ETH to another wallet. We’re going to follow this transaction from beginning to end, from the time it’s sent from the crypto wallet, to when it is added to a block, and when the block gets propagated to the rest of the network. This will give us a good idea of the role that nodes play on Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago

Blockchain for UX Designers | Learn Web3 Product Design 2022

Blockchains are decentralized, peer-to-peer networks. That’s a lot to take in at first, so let’s start with concepts that are familiar to us. Let’s look at how Web2 applications function on the backend. Also, this is just the beginning of Web3 tutorials for product designers. Stay tuned for future Web3 Design Courses where we discuss emerging dApps that will disrupt the internet as we know it today. In Web2, computers, smartphones, and tablets talk to Read more…

By Travis Kassab, ago