INTRO: Timeless

Urinal Etiquette

Build delightful Web3 products

<aside> 💡 Products that are delightful stand out from the competition. Often, such products don't have any advertising because they aren't necessary. A key characteristic of these products is their ease of discovery, learning, use, and reuse. Delightful products are talked about, tweeted about, and go by word-of-mouth

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People we celebrate with, people we spend time with. We believe a delightful product has the power to bring together people from different walks of life from different parts of the world. It serves to help us embrace our humanity above all else.

<aside> 💡 Beyond the bygone generation of web1 & 2, web3 offers affordance to a whole new generation of change-makers, activists, dreamers, OWNERs of tomorrow. In the past two decades, we grew up in up in tough times and learning from the mistakes of older generations. Fast-forward to 2021 and times are even tougher, with a global pandemic and new socioeconomic norms being introduced. However, the same maturity, passions, and global awareness continue to drive our generation to pursue better.

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<aside> 💡 As Web3 natives, we have an opportunity to find and cultivate like-minded communities, work collectively to find solutions to big problems, and challenge the outdated status quo. We are Web3.

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In 2014, Gavin Wood first gave Web3 it's public notoriety. Yet, after 5 years of building, tThe space is still infantile, with a weak infrastructure compared to its Web2 predecessor. There are a number of issues with Web3's developer experience, including complexity, the lack of standardization of protocols, limited support for other platforms, among others. These issues aren't really discussed outside the Web3 developer community. Let's take a look at some of the most common problems that Web3 builders face.

Web3 Growing pain

<aside> 💡 Among the challenges early adopters face are foreign terminology, complicated user interfaces, unexpected and exorbitant fees, security issues, slow transactions, confusing errors, and scams. Even with a friend by your side, that makes for one hell of an onboarding experience.

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<aside> 💡 Early adopters of today will have different motivations and expectations than crypto users of tomorrow. Clunky, confusing, unsafe, unreliable, and expensive systems will not be tolerated by them. Design will be the bridge to help us reach our goals, whether it is for wallets, exchanges, identities, dApps, marketplaces, DeFi, or any other area.

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Good Design

At the heart of empathic product design is putting the user first and trying to understand their emotional experience of using a product