Good User Experience is rare in the crypto world. Most projects are very technology driven and lack attention on user experience. Something which is, unfortunately, holding back mainstream adoption of crypto applications beyond crypto as an investment.

Luckily there are some exceptions of projects that are more focused on ‘normal’ users instead of crypto experts, and invest proper attention to the UX design of their products.

One of my favorite crypto wallets is BRD. Their app is both technically strong as decentralized wallet where you hold your own keys, and has accessible UX design for users that are new to using crypto.

BRD wallet UX design review

Let’s have a look at some of the core flows in the BRD app and what are some of the good and bad UX design decisions.

Wallet setup and seed key backup

The setup flow of decentralized wallets require the user to write down a backup seed key, by which users can access their wallet if they change devices. The first time an user sets up a wallet (and it doesn’t have any funds yet) the urgency to store this seed key in a secure place is little felt. Making this a very challenging part of the user experience to do right.

● Fair explanation why users need to backup a ‘paper key’’. But no explanation what a ‘safe place’ is. Most users might use an unsecure text file on their desktop computer to store this. Examples and graphics would help here.

✔︎ At the end of the flow the app checks if you really wrote down the seed key by asking to input two words you wrote down.

✔︎ Easy to login on your phone with a 6 digit password, instead of a very long private key.