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Aug 6, 2021

It’s time for social media interoperability

Social media is too important to be owned by a few private companies — or governments — Social media is already an integral part of our society, but it’s also ripping us apart. Unfortunately, both the diagnostic on what’s wrong and the solutions on how to fix them are increasingly divided into tribal lines, as are all the other issues that social media debates. …

Ethereum

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It’s time for social media interoperability
It’s time for social media interoperability

Nov 19, 2020

UX Audit: Status

The Dreaded Triple Bar – or when design is outside your control — Status.im is one of the earliest projects on the space and the first to focus on a mobile browser. It starts with a–brilliantly correct–assumption that browsers in mobile are not about being smaller versions of their desktop companions but should be all about messaging. As a messaging app is also…

Uxaudit

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UX Audit: Status
UX Audit: Status

Published in UniLogin

·Sep 18, 2020

Out of Gas: We’re Shutting Down UniLogin

UniLogin is out of gas. Not necessarily out of money, but the current Ethereum gas market, the rise of DeFi, and new browser standards have changed the game significantly enough that we don’t see a way forward with the project. UniLogin started two years ago with a vision for a…

Ethereum

6 min read

Out of Gas: We’re Shutting Down UniLogin
Out of Gas: We’re Shutting Down UniLogin

Aug 18, 2020

UX Audit: Dark Forest Game

And in general more about how I approach the UX work While I’ve been an ethereum evangelist for the past 6 years (it feels so weird to type this!) I have never tried selling people on the idea of buying any coin., because while I am a believer (and hodler)…

Ethereum

11 min read

A Dark Forest UX Audit
A Dark Forest UX Audit

Aug 13, 2020

UX Audit: MetaMask Main Navigation

a UX audit about rethinking metamask menus — Making software—especially on the blockchain—that is both powerful and usable is very hard, I know. And sometimes we plan a lot of our UI but new features get added, some changes are done in the implementation and while we have ideas on how to improve that, they get pushed to…

Ethereum

7 min read

On MetaMask Main Navigation
On MetaMask Main Navigation

Published in UniLogin

·Apr 27, 2020

Turtles All the Way Down: Multisigs Owning Multisigs

Using UniLogin and Gnosis Safe to control a multisig from another multisig. — Despite challenging times, our team is doing our best not to slow down. After tackling the nuances of remote work, we have been focusing on stability and polishing UniLogin. Meanwhile we are happy to see that some integrations we’ve being working on are going live, namely Kickback and Gnosis Safe…

Blockchain

6 min read

Turtles All the Way Down: Multisigs Owning Multisigs
Turtles All the Way Down: Multisigs Owning Multisigs

Published in UniLogin

·Feb 14, 2020

Universal Login Is Now… UniLogin!

But there’s more! Stick around for some cool stories and unicorn drawings. Here’s the short version: we’re rebranding ourselves from the long “Universal Login” name, to the shorter, fancier UniLogin brand, with some extra unicorn sparkle. But wait, don’t go yet! …

Ethereum

3 min read

Universal Login Is Now… UniLogin!
Universal Login Is Now… UniLogin!

Published in UniLogin

·Aug 9, 2019

Where Ethereum Is Going

Changes on Ethereum Foundation and ecosystem from an insider’s perspective — Ethereum is changing, and the Ethereum Foundation is rightly changing with it. While the high centralization of the early years of the foundation might have been crucial for Ethereum to develop and ship, it was also a great source of criticism as it was antithetical of decentralization. At Devcon4, Aya…

Ethereum

5 min read

Where Ethereum is Going
Where Ethereum is Going

Mar 22, 2019

Sunsetting Mist

What’s ahead for our team — Personally it feels like yesterday, but I’ve been working on Mist for over four years. While I’m proud of all the accomplishments we achieved in this time advancing the usability of Ethereum and sharing a vision for web3, we feel Mist, the browser has outlived it’s usefulness: the ecosystem has…

Ethereum

10 min read

Sunsetting Mist
Sunsetting Mist

Published in UniLogin

·Mar 21, 2019

Universal Logins development roundup and events

Short update on what we’ve been up to We’ve been busy spreading the gospel of better onboarding through meta-transactions all around the world. …

Blockchain

3 min read

Universal Logins development roundup and events
Universal Logins development roundup and events
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