The Ethos Universal Wallet
The first product by Ethos, the Ethos Universal Wallet is a place to "Store your crypto tokens, coins and digital assets safely and securely on your mobile device, including Bitcoin, Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens." There is also the ability to track assets you have stored elsewhere such as on a hardware wallet or an exchange by using the "WatchFolio" feature. The wallet also includes summaries of coin performances, analytics of your holdings, the ability to send and receive tokens to your devices, and community sentiment ratings on each supported currency.
About Ethos
Ethos is a people-powered crypto technology company whose mission is to make the "new economy" open, safe, and fair for everyone. Their main goal is to be the first to use technology, design, and social insights to create products that will allow crypto enthusiasts to usher-in a better financial ecosystem. To do this, they have identified a need for a user-friendly and technologically-sound application to make sending, receiving, and monitoring your investments in cryptocurrencies the easiest it can possibly be.
The Ask
I was brought in to the product team at Ethos to help improve the look and feel of the current state of the designs and to also analyze the current user journey of the application prototype. The product team needed my help in making the flow of the app feel less cumbersome than the current methods of crypto management (ie hardware wallets and web-based exchanges.
The Method
A look at the audit I made when first shown the prototype for the Ethos app. This served as the to-do list of UX work to be done once I was officially onboarded.
After completing an initial audit of the current state of the app, I hit the ground running implementing user experience best practices and style changes that would help the app be more accessible without interferring witht he experience. Through user feedback, education on blockchain technology, tons of iterations, and a lot of help from the rest of the organization, we were able to polish the style and the journey of the app. I had the pleasure of working with two brilliant UX/UI interns at the time, Ellen and Gloria, who had taken a previously designed concept sample and pushed it all the way to the well-rounded app the wallet became. Working with the team I was able to create and maintain a design library, create new interactions, screens, flows, and styles for the UW app.
A snapshot of the design library I implemented. I utilized Brad Frost’s Atomic Design Methodology to create consistency and clarity for the Ethos Wallet app.
The Result
While dodging technical limitations, crazy deadlines, and strange community requests, the members of the product team were able to launch the v1.0 of the Ethos Universal Wallet. The whole team was able to meet in person for the first time at the East Coast Summit. There we were able to explain our processes, methods, and tools to our community and to the world. It was a great experience to be able to meet and work with so many talented and passionate individuals working on such an ambitious project.
The Ethos Universal Wallet is available worldwide on the Google Play store and the Apple App Store. Download it and give it a try! If you have any thoughts or suggestions, share them with the Ethos team.
The Ethos Summit where I had the pleasure of discussing the design of the wallet.