Wedaage: A Nostr Client Gets Therapy, And Somehow Survives … by Adem AwolWedaage: A Nostr Client Gets Therapy, And Somehow Survives … by Adem Awol

Wedaage: A Nostr Client Gets Therapy, And Somehow Survives …

Adem Awol

Adem Awol

Category: Decentralized Social / Web3 UX

TL;DR: Wedaage, The UX Intervention Nobody Scheduled.

How one casual "Have you heard of Nostr?" snowballed into a two-week UX intervention for decentralized apps that were technically alive but treating their users like unpaid QA testers.


Wedaage started from one casual “Have you heard of Nostr?” and somehow became a two-week rescue mission for decentralized social apps that were functional, but deeply allergic to usability.
We studied existing Nostr clients, found where they confused users, broke trust, and made basic interactions feel like emotional admin work, then redesigned the experience with cleaner navigation, calmer flows, and a UI that finally treated people like humans.
Figma Link (Visual Evidence That We Did, In Fact, Touch Grass)

Lesson: Trauma Debrief, But Make It Product Strategy

Usability is a choice, not a default. Skip it early, and users will feel every decision you did not make.
Functional does not mean usable. A product can technically work and still emotionally ruin someone's day.
User frustration is a map. The complaints, confusion, and rage-clicks point directly to what needs fixing.
Constraints sharpen decisions. Two weeks forced the fluff out and kept only what actually mattered.
Snarky testers are gold. They will not sugarcoat anything, which is painful but annoyingly useful.
Design is not decoration. It is how a product earns trust, explains itself, and convinces people to stay.
Users do not leave because your product lacks "vision." They leave because every tap quietly teaches them that they should. Wedaage was a small rescue mission that started with one curious question, survived a sprint, and proved that the distance between a product people tolerate and one they actually like is usually just a few deliberate decisions that someone finally bothered to make.
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Posted Aug 9, 2025

A two-week UX intervention for a Nostr client, turning decentralized social chaos into a cleaner, calmer, actually usable experience.