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RE: BlockTrades Update: New Cryptocurrency Accounting Steem

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Just a thought -,

After reading through and always using the market dropdown to purchase STEEM Power instead of the “buy” after 4 months of being here i decided why am i NOT using the buy button through blocktrades and it dawned on me... as a UX / UI expert, i don’t use it because I stumbled onto you guys from a conversation i had helping @acidyo and @anomadsoul on an interface UI I am helping skin and revise for commercialization on the Steem Blockchain. After reading this post I’m quite taken by you guys. You seem to not only assist user comments and informative posts but truly take the time to respond personally and with detail, both of which helps curate organic responses that further grow this community and platform. That was my first take.

  1. the UI is difficult to understand
  2. When dealing with transactions and wallets I’m scared I’ll do something wrong.
  3. If onboarding is failing then i don’t want to risk a mistake
  4. Since it was so hard acquiring this SBD in the first place I’d rather use what i know that works and not use blocktrades

All of these conclusions were user personas that “I” personally have felt.
Which brings me to my next ask! I have been asked by some of the developers and creators here to revise, audit and redesign improvements to their UI’s where onboarding and adoption may be lagging. I’ve been asked to help assist in improving the learning curve on interfaces and when it comes to processing terminals, encryption keys, and banking having worked for the top consultancies in the USA under The Boston Consultant Group and Deloitte building improved banking software and front end UI for their financial clients I’ve found some onboarding and adoption improvements here with blocktrades as well.
Just a thought!
Since you guys seem to be on top of things both community and organic i thought I’d offer my skill set to help rebuild the ux and ui ofyour interface to help improve the ones that are fearful to use the ui like me even.
Happy to help, and make this a 2-3 week project on the side if you guys see the value. Please reach out to me here or on discord. I’d be happy to help

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There actually used to be a simpler interface to our backend api server in condenser, but it was disabled quite some time ago. I'm reasonably sure that the only way to make a simpler interface than what exists on the blocktrades web site today would be another direct integration into the steemit wallet (like the old one, but better). But we don't host condenser, so that's outside of our control at the moment.

I have considered hosting our own condenser at some point, but it's a reasonably intensive task at the moment to host a condenser if it sees a lot of traffic (which would be the whole point of hosting one of our own), so I'd prefer to wait until there's been some improvements in that area before we offer a customized version.

ah i would agree with your statement, but heres another response from that.

My intention was the just provide improved Look and Feel and better onboarding in the form of coach marks and messaging. I think If you guys let me provide a design series to help refine and redesign the existing without adjusting the functionality and just rearranging some of the layout of your interface while creating better instructions for users you'd get a much more improved engagement with your current. Im not asking to rebuild a condenser or even add fucntionality but to just overall adjust the layout you have now and improving the messaging

ive copied our conversation to your discord if youd like to take this offline to chat about etc. Honestly I might just do a reskin of your exisiting and provide you with the css doc as well just to help show you how new and improved the UI can look... IM avail all week 9-5pm pst on discord and will be at the Crypto Invest Summit in LA tomorrow if you guys are there as well.


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