The birth of the multi-chain NFT wallet

Nebula Wallet is the world’s first NFT focused wallet with the goal of bringing ease to the management of digital assets across multiple blockchains.

Overview

Nebula is set to be the best and most compatible wallet to view, store, receive and send NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) and Fungible tokens (cryptocurrency).

Role

Product Designer

Tools

Figma, Miro

Goals

Nebula aims to be the most secure NFT-compatible wallet

The goals of Nebula are to:

Be the most NFT compatible wallet
Redifine and amplify the regular wallet user experience
Provide added value to the Non fungible Token owner by offering intuitive sorting and categorization.

Research

Competitors

There are quite a few blockchain wallets out there—the most well-known being Metamask. With over 21 million monthly active users and its somewhat user-friendly interface we identied it as the major competition.

Overall, we identied that software wallets tend to be more convenient and I created a moodboard with five other wallets we chose as good points to innovate from; Coinbase, Trust, Coin 98, Phantom and Slope wallet.

Role & Process

Empathise and understand

Walked the team through an activity in which we had to create an empathy map to understand the target persona. We categorized the archetype in a quadrant based on what we understood about the user’s thoughts, feelings, actions, and words.

Next was the affinity map. This was going to help us understand the higher level themes and varying opportunities clustered in the quadrant of our persona’s thoughts, feelings, actions, and words. This gave a top down outlook on the possibilities of the user experience we could offer.

Engaged the team in a “How Might We” exercise to craft the challenge statement for the problem we aim to solve with the designed product. We voted on the best statement by getting everyone’s opinion on the miro board and using a format of - “problem to solve, business value, and opportunity to leverage”. That way, we could clearly see where design meets technology and business needs.

We also had to ensure that we identified success metrics that we would be tracking post release. The UX or HEART metrics specific to the Web3 wallet we were building was as important as the design itself. These include, Happiness, engagement, Adoption, Retention, and Task Success of each feature, screen, and functionality.

Ideate

Researched inspiring demos of other applications to give a sense of what competitive advantage we were going to leverage on for low fidelity sketches.

Led the design team through a Crazy 8 sketching activity in which we had to; in 2 minutes, sketch 8 different mockups that capture the concepts that have been generated from the affinity map and empathy map.

The best ideas were detailed out and collected to be digitized for voting.

Decide and Define

Everyone voted via sticky notes the best sketches and then story boards were carefully created for each screen to aid prototyping.

We now had a much clearer definition of what our products interface was going to comprise of.

Prototype

Out of the voted upon sketches, low fidelity mockups were created for each screen

Low fidelity mockups were converted into high fidelity prototypes while incorporating all storyboard elements.

Store your collectibles

Swap native tokens

Share your Clusters

Monitoryour portfolio

Test

Due to the virtual nature of work, we set up lookback (participate) for review and testing of the fidelity prototypes. The aim was to prepare a usability guide to help checkmark task points and success of interaction.

All tested results were captured and fed back as design requests for further iteration.

Design System

With the ethos of the product and some major screens already outlined, I created a design system in order to achieve intuitive and consistent design.

What’s Next?

The Solarsoft team plan to launch the beta for Nebula, though our efforts are largely on pause given the bear market. We’ll continue to fix bugs and improve the app but we look forward to ramping up again in soon. Our next steps will be:

Beta feedback: Once conditions are in place, we'll reach back out to our beta users to collect feedback and iterate on the app. In the short time we've been in beta, we've already learned some really interesting things.
Growing the community: our goal is to grow the community in the NFT community. We have a lot of great content lined up for Twitter, Instagram, Discord and growing our audience there.

In the meantime, feel free to Join the waitlist for beta access!