The project focuses on simplifying high-risk blockchain interactions including wallet creation, asset transfers, and token swaps through structured friction, progressive disclosure, and transparent feedback states.

The goal was to design a secure yet intuitive experience that reduces user anxiety while maintaining visual depth and modern interface aesthetics.

Decentralized exchanges are powerful but intimidating for non-technical users.

Many DEX interfaces:

Feel overly technical

Prioritizes data density over clarity

Present financial actions without enough visual reassurance

Make high-stake actions feel abrupt

For everyday users, interacting with a DEX can feel risky and unfamiliar

SlimeWallet reimagines the DEX experience with a trust-first and clarity-driven interface.

The focus was on:

Clear visual hierarchy for high-risk actions

Immediate visibility of key actions (Swap, Send, Receive)

Reduced data clutter

Strong visual feedback and confirmation states

To support high-stakes financial interactions, the interface adopts a tactile, depth-driven design language. The use of controlled highlights, layered surfaces, and strong visual weight was intended to:

Reinforce action importance

Communicate stability and solidity

Create intentional pauses before irreversible steps

Differentiate from flat, hyper-technical DEX interfaces

Prioritized clarity over feature density in high-risk flows

Used progressive disclosure to reveal complexity contextually

Introduced structured friction during wallet creation

Maintained consistent feedback patterns across transactional states

To maintain consistency across high-risk financial interactions, I developed a lightweight but scalable design system covering color, typography, components, and interaction states.

The system was built to ensure visual clarity, predictable behavior, and reuse across wallet creation, transfers, and swap flows

The first screen establishes trust and clarity before introducing high-stakes actions.

Users are immediately presented with a clear, low-friction choice between creating a new wallet or importing an existing one

Users should understand their options before understanding the system

Wallet recovery is a high-risk action with irreversible consequences.

Reduce anxiety while improving input accuracy by providing;

Clean, distraction-free input state

Structured seed phrase segmentation

Clear primary action after validation

Users make more errors when sensitive inputs lack structure

Importing a wallet is a high-risk interaction.
Clear feedback is essential to maintain user trust and prevent uncertainty.

Eliminate doubt after submission to reinforce confidence in system responses

The system provides:

Clear visual confirmation upon success

Strong iconography and color to reduce doubt

A clear primary action to proceed

Calm retry state in case of failure

Visual aggression increases perceived system instability

Wallet creation transfers full security responsibility to the user.

Present the phrase generation in a structured, readable format

Ask users to verify their phrase

Reinforce the importance of secure phrase storage

Verification transforms passive viewing into active documentation

Users ignore warning but they rarely ignore required actions

Encourage deliberate acknowledgment before proceeding

Reinforce the importance of secure phrase storage

High level overview of portfolio holdings with primary actions and a closer look to specific assets

Present token icons for easy recognition

Current token price and live ticker

Make primary actions easy to use

Current price chart

Recent transactions

Users scan portfolios before analysing positions

This flow was designed to keep the initial interface minimal while revealing critical information with context

Users enter recipient wallet address and amount

Primary action remains disabled until required fields are completed to reduce accidental submissions

Network (gas) fee

Total amount deducted

Estimated confirmation time

Amount user is sending

Reducing errors help keep users on happy path

Given the irreversible nature of blockchain transfers, explicit feedback is critical to reinforce trust and clarity

Provide clear confirmation

Offer immediate next action

Avoid ambiguous completion states

Clearly communicate the cause of failure

Allow fast recovery without restarting the flow

Ambiguous completion states erode user trust

This staged progression prevents missclicks to ensures clarity before moving into pricing and exchange calculation

Clear token identification (icon, ticker, balance)

Real-time price visibility & change indicator

The selected token is highlighted

The primary CTA (“Continue”) becomes active

Premature clicks increases error risk

Users input the amount to be swapped and destination

Token identification & balance

Currency selector

Max balance shortcut

Gas fee revealed

Slippage visibility

Service provider context

Delay complexity until commitment is formed

The success and error states provide immediate, actionable feedback with clear messaging to reduce user anxiety during blockchain transaction processing

Immediate visual confirmation upon successful swap

Strong iconography and color to reduce ambiguity

A clear primary action to proceed

A calm and low stress state for an otherwise stressful feedback

Unmistakeable icon to represent the error state

A clear primary action to retry without restarting the flow

Calm feedback reduces perceived transaction risk.

Reduced transaction errors through progressive disclosure

Increased user trust via transparent fee breakdown

Improved clarity in high-risk blockchain interactions

Consistent feedback patterns to reduce uncertainty

Add transaction preview confirmation before final send

Introduce customizable slippage tolerance in swap

Implement gas speed selection for advanced users

Conduct usability testing around seed phrase comprehension

Explore biometric confirmation for high-value transfers

This project explored designing for irreversible financial systems where clarity and trust are critical. It reinforced the role of structured friction, transparency, and system consistency in reducing user error and anxiety. It also gave me the opportunity to explore a tactile, layered design language while ensuring that visual depth never compromised usability in high-risk financial interactions