Devcon 6 (Bogotá 2022)
who it's for
web3 product designers, web3 product managers, smart contract developers, frontend engineers, dao organizers, ux researchers, developer relations engineers
topics
asset rights abstractions; smart contract wallets; account abstraction (ERC-4337/3074); Gnosis Safe integrations; on-chain gaming with ZK snarks; verifiable credentials and DIDs; web3 UX research methods; decentralized identity reputation; DeFi product metrics beyond TVL; parallel sprints for contracts and front end; localization for Latin America; documentation and plain-language UX
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Asset Rights Abstractions - a Case for Smart Contract Wallets | Josef J, Naim | 25m |
A concrete implementation called Pawn Safe mints ATR token rights that let a holder initiate transfers from a Gnosis Safe without moving assets up front, using… | ||
| Dark Forest: Lessons from 3 Years of On-Chain Gaming | gubsheep | 26m |
A fully decentralized MMORTS runs its rules and hidden-state verification on-chain using ZK snarks (circom, snarkjs); early moves were estimated at $10–$100… | ||
| The Future of Web3UX - a Paradigm Shift for a Better Collaboration between Design and Development | Sasha Tanase | 19m |
Claims that 70% of UX is defined by smart contracts, notes audits happen 2–4 times and design is typically brought in after contracts are fixed, causing… | ||
| Social Composability Design: How DAOs Can Leverage It for the Future of Work | Dominic Emanuel Horn | 30m |
Argues that Web3 must turn interaction history into portable reputation by shipping verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers (DIDs) tied to real… | ||
| The Original Sin | Taylor Monahan | 28m |
MetaMask grows from ~300k to 30 million monthly active users and early choices around exposing private keys produce widespread loss; wallets once let users… | ||
| How to Talk to g̵i̵r̵l̵s̵ Users at p̵a̵r̵t̵i̵e̵s̵ Your App | Alex Van de Sande | 28m |
Argues that quick, cheap user research finds major problems early: uses 5-second test, first-click and navigation benchmarks, userbrain video sessions… | ||
| A Playbook for Product Development in DeFi | Alim Khamisa | 12m |
Advocates a practical product playbook: prioritize an now/next/later roadmap, maintain an R&D pipeline of new DeFi primitives, and run parallel sprints—one for… | ||
| Data + Empathy: How to Approach UX Decisions in Web3 | Drew Tozer | 06m |
Argues that pairing participatory design with data design surfaces why people behave, not just what, and that Web3’s privacy tools make much activity off-chain… | ||
| Understanding Latinamericans to Design a Local Flavour DeFi Platform | Diego Mazo | 08m |
A UX research method called Tropykal User Dive runs iterative field work across El Salvador, Colombia and Argentina and surfaces five concrete needs… | ||
| Positive Framing and Communication for Web3 | Oliver JL Renwick | 27m |
Argues that negative jargon blocks onboarding and shows specific rewrites and tooling: change non-custodial into self-custodial wallet to convey user… | ||
| DEVA Awards | Aqeel I Mohammad | 11m |
Community-voted DEVA awards distill 2000 nominations into concrete wins and recognitions: Trojan unicorn award goes to ENS for six years of steady development… | ||
| Education as a Public Good: Past, Present & Future of ethereum.org | Sam Richards | 28m |
ethereum.org positions itself as a community-run educational public good receiving 20 million visits per year across ~50 languages, maintained by a paid core… | ||
| Participant Experience Design | Althea Allen, Scott Moore | 49m |
Panel explores shifting design from passive customers to active participants, arguing for quadratic funding and community-first flows rather than… | ||
| Adoption Day — UX Unconference 🚀👩🚀 | Aqeel I Mohammad | 02h 07m |
Conference session unpacks specific UX problems and concrete fixes: wallet UX today forces users into passwords and fragile recovery phrases and eip-4337… | ||
| Tokenizing Brands : 3 Key Learnings | Weiwu Zhang | 21m |
A team of ~40 working for four years describes three deployed solutions: credit‑card sales with magic-link email attestations that delay wallet setup for… | ||
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