my top 10 apps on ethereum this year 🧵 2023 gave us more creative ways to use the chain. we saw a glimpse of what a thriving consumer crypto ecosystem could be.

that said, existing wallets are the status quo imo, and i've decided to exclude them to showcase what's on the horizon for meaningful crypto use cases.

i'm blown away by how creative websites from the 90s were, despite the constraints.

with slower internet speeds, websites needed to be more efficient, prioritizing function over style. but yet, they still managed to be useful and have flair.

i've curated 15 of my favorites👇🧵 1/ google, 1999

the OG minimalist. once you the others below, you'll better appreciate how ahead of it's time this ux was.

AI won't just replace interface designers. It will replace interfaces.

A vision for digital products in the age of AI 🧵👇

1/31 2/ I'm often asked how AI will change design. There's a lot to contemplate:

What design skills are future-proof?
How will AI augment a designer's job?
What parts of design will be automated?
Will AI replace designers altogether?

Truthfully, these are the wrong questions to ask.

Take a break from doom scrolling and enjoy some brain candy.

Here are 16 oddly satisfying "pull to refresh" animations.

🧵👇 1/ by @guidorosso

AI won't just replace interface designers. AI will replace interfaces. We're moving from buttons to chat. But final form is no input at all.

Think about Nest. Perfect UI/UX: It has a smooth rotation, satisfying haptic feedback, clear temp indicator, beautiful colors.

But you never dial it. It already knows you like it colder while you sleep.

Concept: Crypto x AI x Commerce

Ask a shopping agent for a recommendation and give it permission and guidance to purchase things on your behalf. In this approval scenario, which I think could be really interesting for multi-account/wallet users:

1. Ask for a recommendation, it makes a suggestion based on your specific interests that it has observed about you.

2. Ask it to make a purchase on your behalf by monitoring a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Onboarding the next billion users with words.

How the term "wallet" is psychologically limiting web3's growth potential, and a case for abandoning it.

🧵👇 1/ When you hear the term "wallet," you probably (pre-crypto) imagine a foldable pouch to store paper money.

It's a useful metaphor—crypto has solved many finance problems: store of value, borderless transactions, trustless financial services.

But crypto has become so much more

21 design fails that are so bad, they're good 🧵 1/ Which way is up?

Concept: Online courses gated by enrollment NFTs.

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1/16 2/ This is a follow on from yesterday's "luxury software" thread, as a deeper exploration in positive ways to leverage limited access software.

https://twitter.com/0xDesigner/status/1651240773554151429?s=20

Concept: Luxury software

In the near future, the most popular and sought after apps will be the ones you can't have.

A short thread 🧵

1/X 1/ For the last two decades, the web2 playbook for software success has been SCALE:

Find product-market fit, acquire as many users and eyeballs as possible, figure out how to monetize later.

Probably the best thing you'll see today.

In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world.

The results 🧵

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