Advanced Multi-Party Wallet
PRODUCT DESIGN
CLIENT
bcoin / bPanel
TOOLS
Adobe Illustrator, Marvel
AUDIENCE
Bitcoin CTOs & Exchange Operators
01. WHAT IS BPANEL?
The idea for bPanel evolved when Copay announced that they would be deprecating a popular wallet that managed funds stored on offline hardware.
At Purse, a full-node JS implementation of Bitcoin named bcoin was powering marketplace interactions with the blockchain. Without Copay's tool, bcoin required its' own UI to easily manage nodes.
02. PLANNING & RESEARCH
In the beginning I worked directly with the VP of engineering at Purse in weekly cycles. We recognized that building a front-end for a bcoin node would pose interesting challenges, and defining our limitations was vital to early planning.
We heavily discussed who we were building for; a technical user that oversees a secure operation. Building user trust was our highest priority.
SKILLS
User Research, Information Architecture
03. DESIGN & UX
Most of my work was designed in Adobe Illustrator with application flows tested in Marvel. During this phase I ensured that advanced features of the app did not excuse poor UX. Significant time was spent discussing work flows with the engineering team to accommodate technology trade-offs.
A lack of traditional database structure to store meta data posed a unique challenge. The bPanel node was limited by connecting directly to the node, and extra time was spent on overcoming such obstacles with out of the box thinking.
As an example, even something as simple as pagination could create very long load times. From a design perspective it required careful consideration to avoid unnecessary complexity, as crypto wallets often have different UX considerations.
SKILLS
UI, UX, Visual Design, Prototyping, Product Management