Creating a gateway into the Solana ecosystem

Challenge / Opportunity

Nitrogen is wallet that allows users to manage their Solana assets on mobile and desktop.
The product team at Nitrogen gave us the challenge of redesigning their existing mobile app. The goal was to improve the user experience, redesign the user interface, and design some of the new features being implemented. Nitrogen is positioned as a gateway into the Solana ecosystem, and therefore caters for newcomers to cryptocurrency, DeFi and GameFi. We designed the app from the ground up, including the onboarding.

Redesigning the Nitrogen wallet mobile app in a 5-day UX Sprint was an ambitious target. However, we delivered over 80 screens to the Nitrogen product team, presenting the app on iPhone SE, iPhone 13 and Android.

Services

  • User research
  • Market Research
  • Wireframing - Low-fidelity, high-fidelity
  • UX design
  • Design system
  • Prototyping
  • User testing

Project

Team
  • 2x Senior UX Designers
  • 1x Researcher
Date
Jan 2022

Approach

For this challenge, we recommended our 5-Day UX Sprint.
5-Day UX Sprint
Our UX Sprints are the fastest way to execute. No internal meetings. No sales calls. No long lunches. No helping Gary in accounts.
Pre-flight
We had a four hour meeting the week before the sprint to meet the team, discuss the project brief, confirm the deliverables and obtain any necessary assets before the first day of the sprint.
Daily calls
Every morning we had a 15 minute stand up with the Nitrogen team
Show & Tell
At the end of each day we sent an email with a link to a prototype plus a video screencast of us presenting our work to the Nitrogen team
Prototyping
Prototypes not presentations - we prefer to show prototypes instead of screens. This allowed the Nitrogen team to walk through user journeys instead of a set of static screens.
User testing
We performed two rounds of user testing. First we ran user testing on the existing Nitrogen app, and on day 3 we ran a second session on the prototype that we had created

Outcomes & Deliverables

80+ screens
iPhone SE, iPhone 13, and Android
Production-ready
Production-ready screens, assets and iconography
Prototype
Comprehensive prototype split into user journeys
User testing
Video and feedback presented in a report
Design System
Colour, iconography, typography, grids, components
5 day delivery
Start to finish in just five days
“Extending the organization’s reach by providing information to young people who don’t have access to sex education.”
Bob Jones
Product Director, BBC

App UI Design

Branding