56 min
Web3 UX for Dummies with Max Lyman Beyond The Blocks
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- Technology
Have you ever tried to help your dad set up a Trezor wallet? Or wasted hours trying to turn your crypto into cash? Spending more than five minutes onboarding yourself into web3 will show you that UX (user experience) in the space kinda sucks. But given how sophisticated blockchain technology is, why is its UX so bad? Does it have to be that way, and what effects does that have on users and the promise of blockchain? I’m here with Max Lyman today to tackle these questions.
Max, also known as Crypto Jesus, is the co-founder and CEO of Solon Labs. At Solon, Max is building an interface to the web which is crypto-native from the ground up. It delivers on the blockchain’s promise of decentralization while also achieving an intuitive and value-maximizing UX.
In this episode, we talk about how UX has been done and how we can make it better. We also touch on what makes blockchain essential for its users around the world, and use the story of blockchain and UX to make new insights into human nature.
Timestamps:
(0:00) Intro
(1:47) ERC-4337 and smart contract accounts
(9:16) Maximizing arbitrage opportunities with smart contract accounts
(17:34) Centralized frontends to decentralized contracts
(19:51) The importance of decentralization
(22:03) Value of good UX and challenges getting there
(29:36) How to design for non-technical users
(36:10) Crypto Jesus origin story/first blockchain project
(45:35) The history of Web3 demographics
(48:46) Advice for people getting into blockchain
(50:17) Trustlessness and human nature
Learn more:
Max's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Crypto__Jesus_
Solon Labs: https://www.solon.network/
Have you ever tried to help your dad set up a Trezor wallet? Or wasted hours trying to turn your crypto into cash? Spending more than five minutes onboarding yourself into web3 will show you that UX (user experience) in the space kinda sucks. But given how sophisticated blockchain technology is, why is its UX so bad? Does it have to be that way, and what effects does that have on users and the promise of blockchain? I’m here with Max Lyman today to tackle these questions.
Max, also known as Crypto Jesus, is the co-founder and CEO of Solon Labs. At Solon, Max is building an interface to the web which is crypto-native from the ground up. It delivers on the blockchain’s promise of decentralization while also achieving an intuitive and value-maximizing UX.
In this episode, we talk about how UX has been done and how we can make it better. We also touch on what makes blockchain essential for its users around the world, and use the story of blockchain and UX to make new insights into human nature.
Timestamps:
(0:00) Intro
(1:47) ERC-4337 and smart contract accounts
(9:16) Maximizing arbitrage opportunities with smart contract accounts
(17:34) Centralized frontends to decentralized contracts
(19:51) The importance of decentralization
(22:03) Value of good UX and challenges getting there
(29:36) How to design for non-technical users
(36:10) Crypto Jesus origin story/first blockchain project
(45:35) The history of Web3 demographics
(48:46) Advice for people getting into blockchain
(50:17) Trustlessness and human nature
Learn more:
Max's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Crypto__Jesus_
Solon Labs: https://www.solon.network/
56 min