Coinsack

Coinsack is a crypto app designed to enhance the mobile and web experience for both novice and experienced cryptocurrency traders. The primary goal is to create an accessible platform for users at all skill levels.

Project Duration

2 Weeks

Target Audience

Students

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My Roles

UI Designer

UX Designer

Objectives

Simplify the crypto trading process for both beginners and experienced users.

Create a user-friendly platform that accommodates users at all skill levels.

Improve personal problem-solving skills through the design process.

My Design Process

Before I start any design I always ensure to do my own research thereby learning new things about the project and improving the way I would work on the project. For Coinsack the process wasn’t any different.

Research

I carried out a research on cryptocurrency then did a qualitative survey with the aid of google forms.

Define

After carrying out my research I identified the major areas to focus on in the project.

Ideate

At this point I started noting down my ideas for the project by sketching out my wireframes.

Design

I started designing the high fidelity wireframes with my figma tool

Prototype

At this stage I prototyped my work to get a view of how it would look like in the real world.

Research

Like I said earlier I like conducting my own research before carrying out my projects. I also created a quantitative survey through the use of google forms to ask traders and non traders about their experience with cryptocurrency apps to which I got 13 responses. The chart can be seen below;

Insights from the quantitative research using google forms

Can you tell us your experience using these apps

I had a pleasant experience

It's been fine, most of them give me what I need;
a place to monitor prices, buy and sell.

Fast and Easy to Use

A bit tricky at the beginning
but got used to it thereafter

Secure and reliable and easy to use

User friendly

Excellent

Trust wallet has been reliable so far.
I don't use it frequently but it feels secure
as it allows me to open multiple wallets.
Binance hangs a lot, though it
could be because my phone RAM is low.

What features did you like about these apps

P2P

Funding, withdrawal (transfer), P2P

All the features (p2p, spot, futures trading) etc

Ease of use to purchase crypto

The user-friendly interface

All of it

I like the fact that Trust wallet is very secure
and keeps coins safe. I like the fact that
binance logs me out automatically
after a set period of nonuse and
asks me to login again as a security measure

First Time

What features didn't you like about these apps

Some of them have pretty poor
accessibility, coming to think of it.

The homescreen

Security

I don't like the fact that
once I lose my passphrase for trust wallet,
my wallet is irrecoverable. i also don't
like the fact that Binance consumes a lot of data
I think the UI/UX design is a bit excessive
and consumes a lot of data.

None

Not Yet

Not Sure

Can't Really Say

What features would you have liked to be added to these apps

This is my first time

Easier access to different features.
Some educational content or guide.

More streamlined/simplified UIs and
an option to receive notifications on the prices
of coins you own/have shown interest in.

Wo I've tried. Friendly advice: make your forms
more appealing to reply to. It's 2022, not br] many people like writing essays👍🏽

In the course of my research I had to test different crypto apps to get more insight and inspiration for coinsack.

App Name

Bihance

Coinbase

Breet

Pros

P2P

Browser

Easy Registration

Cons

Stressful Registration

P2P

P2P

These apps are all great for trading crypto and all have more pros than cons

Define

At this stage I created detailed user personas and outlined distinctive features to set Coinsack apart in the competitive crypto app landscape. This ensured a user-centric design approach, addressing the diverse needs of both beginners and experienced crypto traders.

Demographics

Name: Funke Ayodeji

Age: 20

Location: Osun State

Occupation: Teacher

Bio

Funke is a single teacher who works in a secondary school and just started trading crypto but needs an app that can help manage and improve her trading skills without affecting her teaching job.

Pain Points

  • Unable to manage her crypto portfolio due to her teaching job
  • Still finds some crypto concepts confusing.
  • Doesn’t make her desired income from crypto.

Goals

  • To increase her crypto trading skills.
  • To trade crypto without it affecting her teaching job.
  • To make more income from crypto.

Demographics

Name: Shola Johnson

Age: 28

Location: Lagos State

Occupation: Data Analyst

Bio

Shola is a top data analyst at a multinational company and married with 2 kids. He is a crypto expert and loves to play around with crypto apps.

Pain Points

  • Doesn’t like how some web trading options aren’t on mobile
  • Doesn’t have enough time for his family due to his job.

Goals

  • To use more web features on mobile trading apps.
  • To spend more time with his family.

Coinsack, as I like to say, has a sack of features, it was designed with the users in mind from the onboarding screens to the logout screen it has been tailored to be a seamless and exciting experience. Some of these features are listed below:

  1. Easy and fast registration.
  2. Buying and selling of cryptocurrencies.
  3. Educational content and guide for beginners.
  4. Peer to peer trading.
  5. Easy crafting of portfolios.
  6. Notifications on the crypto economy.

Ideate

Design

Some exclusive screens with major features

The Homescreen

Portfolio

Trade

Learn

The homescreen shows the users at a glance their current balance and they can easily buy, sell, send, recieve and convert their assets through the quick actions. It also showcases the live prices of some assets available on coinsack. This was done to enable a stress free user experience.

The portfolio screen enables the users to manage their assets, it also gives them an history of their past transactions and saved assets.

The trade screen makes all trading done on coinsack possible from here users have several trading options like peer to peer, futures trading and even NFTs. Allowing all these features to co-exist in the same section was done to improve their accessibility.

One of the top priorities of Coinsack is to help beginners understand the crypto world easier so the learn section was created which has 4 sub sections namely the articles, videos, demo and saved sections. The articles section contains a sack of articles on anything crypto, blockchain, nfts and even web 3.0 and yes it also applies to the videos’ section as well. The ‘’saved’’ section keeps all starred articles and videos.

Challenges I Faced

Being my first case study, presenting it posed a challenge but after carrying out a research, checking Behance and Linkedin for inspirations, I finally came across someone who designed a ready made template in the Figma community for beginners, shout to Esther Omosehin (Kems), which I later used for my presentation on behance.

Lessons Learnt

I learnt how to communicate with developers.

I was greatly exposed to the crypto space.

I discovered how valuable the figma community was.

Tools I Used

Figma

Youtube

Miro

Google Forms

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