Başak | Web3 UX

I was hired fully remote. Then they changed policy and wanted people back in the office. I said no. I stayed in Bali. The contract ended. So I launched my own UX studio.

being a web3 designer is basically: users: “why is this so complicated?” devs: “because blockchain” me: tries to make chaos look intentional anyone else designing in this ecosystem?

@LukeADesign this is for the people who don't enjoy the process and want to come up with something quick just to be done with it, and wouldn't know what real inspiration from those deep dives feel like.

I'll never understand why anyone would want to replace design discovery with AI. "I need you to create me a moodboard for this [insert brief]." You're getting such a clinical and airtight snapshot of what AI thinks is right for the project. There's beauty in falling into the rabbit hole of Cosmos, Pinterest, or whatever you use for inspiration and finding styles that you would never have considered could work, but they do. Why would you rob yourself of all this cool exploration? There's a place for AI, product and brand photography comes first to my mind (if the client doesn't have a budget). But we all got into design to explore, push creative boundaries and make something super cool. AI should never replace creativity, ever.

if x402 + ai agents take off, we might end up with two markets on the internet: - humans - agents and they care about completely different things. humans respond to: - branding - storytelling - social proof - beautiful ui agents care about structured signals: - price - latency - reliability - api schema - success rate to an agent, “marketing” might look like this: endpoint: /route price: $0.0004 latency: 120ms success_rate: 99.8% so we might be entering a world of machine-readable marketing. people are starting to call this things like: - agent-optimized APIs - machine discoverability - ai-native services which basically means your product must be: - easily callable - easily priced - easily comparable seo for robots. ironically, that makes good ux even more important for humans, because humans still decide which tools agents are allowed to use.

by now you’ve probably seen some talk about x402. here’s what it actually is: x402 is built around an old HTTP status code: 402 - payment required. the idea is simple: a service can ask for payment directly inside an internet request. example: - an AI agent asks a weather API for data. - request → “what’s the weather in bali?” - the server replies: - 402 Payment Required – $0.001 - the agent pays. - the request runs again. - now the server responds with the weather data. no accounts. no subscriptions. no API keys. just request → payment → response. why people are talking about this: it could allow software and AI agents to pay for services automatically. instead of signing up for APIs, software could simply request data, pay a tiny amount, and move on. think: - data APIs - compute - trading routes - analytics - content all pay-per-request. like turning parts of the internet into small vending machines. it’s still early. but the core idea is interesting: bringing payments directly into the internet protocol layer.

@MerlijnTrader Luigi follows only the Ferraris

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We built Yakz to make routing across CEX + DEX actually usable. Today the testnet is live. If you try it, break it, or hate something, tell me. That’s how this gets better.

T-8 HOURS. 🦬 Final checks before Yakz Public Testnet. The Yak is preparing the routes. Docs are live. Explore how it works ↓ 📖 GitBook: dalos-network.gitbook.io/yakz Testnet opens today.

@PeterROCK_ why not approach this with the usual response: “it depends”? it depends on: - the product, - the target users, - the context of use, - the feature set. there isn’t a universal direction that makes sense for every case.

Designing for mobile first is a repeated Jargon I have never agreed with. Designing the large screen first becsuse it's complex, then taking it down, stripping it down for mobile is the common sense way. Becsuse all you are designing for is up to down.

Developments follow demand. If people can’t use it, they won’t adopt it. And without adoption, there’s no funding, regulation, or global scale. Also, crypto is bigger than financial rails for AI. It’s governance, ownership, coordination. AI may transact on it. Humans still decide if it matters. So yes, it needs to be human-friendly first.

Stop trying to make crypto human-friendly. It’s a native protocol for AI. While we sleep, robots will be using programmable money (stablecoins) to settle global transactions on financial rails that never close

$14 billion. that is how much got stolen in crypto last year. 🚨 we usually treat security like it's strictly a smart contract dev problem, but honestly? trust is a UX problem. if your dApp looks sketchy, has zero tooltips, asks for blind permissions, and relies on the "trust me bro" aesthetic, people are going to bounce. we aren't just designing interfaces anymore, we are designing psychological safety. build guardrails. 🛡️

@lennysan @jenny_wen @AnthropicAI @figma @Dropbox @Square @Shopify the first bookmark that i'll return to.

Design lead for Claude: The classic design process is dead. Here's what's replacing it. Jenny Wen (@jenny_wen) leads design for Claude at @AnthropicAI, was previously director of design at @Figma, and a designer at @Dropbox, @Square, and @Shopify. In our in-depth conversation, we discuss: 🔸 Why the classic discovery → mock → iterate design process is becoming obsolete 🔸 What a day in the life of a designer at Anthropic looks like, including her AI tool stack 🔸 Whether AI will eventually surpass humans in taste and judgment 🔸 Why Jenny left a director role at Figma to return to IC work 🔸 The three archetypes Jenny is hiring for now This conversation changed how I think about the future of design. Listen now 👇 youtu.be/eh8bcBIAAFo

@rezoundous it is definitely something one learns, hopefully not through the hard way

@basakonem Its important to be consistent and pace yourself.

The most underrated founder skill is just not quitting on a bad week.

@rezoundous working on it ✍️✍️✍️

@basakonem Gotta pick up the skills fast or outsource.

How many unfinished projects do you have? A) 1-3 B) 4-10 C) I stopped counting

@dalosnetwork counting hours here

Are you ready for your first transaction on the first DEX - CEX aggregator? 🪽

@DesignsByGolem do yourself a favour and pick a 14", 16" is a pain to carry around

@basakonem Same here, my next upgrade will be a MacBook too😭

you’re not a real Windows user if you haven’t seen the Wi-Fi bug.

@TTrimoreau talk to users. avoiding this is like being lost, thinking this is a familiar place and i can find my way around, and not asking the way to someone local, insisting that i'm not lost. makes me lose time, get confused, and miles away from where i need to be.

You have 30 days. What do you focus on? -Build features -Talk to users -Grow audience