Design · Feb 12, 2026 · 6 min · June Park
Designing Better Interfaces for Decentralized Products
Hide complexity. Never hide consequences.
Good Web3 interfaces hide complexity without hiding consequences. Users should not need to understand gas mechanics — but they must always see what they are approving, what it costs, and when it is final.
Show the irreversible parts
Approvals, amounts, and recipients get plain-language summaries and big type. Everything reversible can be quiet.
Design the waiting
Transactions pend. Great products narrate the wait — submitted, confirming, confirmed — instead of freezing the screen.
Write errors for humans
“Insufficient funds for gas” beats any revert code. Every failure state should say what happened and what to do next.
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