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About the Umoja:
Umoja is a decentralized credit protocol that provides fully secured, blended, and affordable financing to emerging market enterprises. The protocol crowdsources loan financing and collateral on-chain, enabling debt investors to fully control their default risk by renting collateral at any time during the loan’s maturity.
Umoja’s mission is to provide the world with risk-tolerant and affordable, open financial infrastructure to accelerate real financial inclusion.
The protocol incentivizes Liquidity Providers (senior tranche debt investors), Backers (junior tranche debt investors), Approvers (Underwriters), Collateral Providers, and Stakers (Default Insurers) to share the risk and reward of loan financing. By doing so, Umoja minimizes the cost of financing and helps lower the cost of capital for borrowers.
Additionally, Umoja will be the first, multi-currency lending protocol where loans can be denominated in any fiat currency, rather than just USD, EURO, and YEN, which are the main stablecoin pegs across DeFi’s existing ecosystem.
Solution This case study demonstrates the importance of each design step to make the interface for decentralized technologies accessible and user-friendly.
Discovery Phase
Step 1: Analysis of the White Paper:
Conducted a comprehensive analysis of the project's white paper to understand the technical and conceptual aspects of the protocol.
Collaborated with the development team to extract key features and functionalities.
Identified unique selling points and pain points that could inform the design.
Step 2: Research:
Conducted interviews with stakeholders to identify user requirements and pain points.
Researched existing decentralized protocols and their user interfaces to identify opportunities for improvement.
Step 3: Information Architecture:
Developed an information architecture plan outlining the organization of the platform's content.
Designed a clear navigation structure to ensure users could easily access and understand the complex protocol features.
Step 4: Low-Quality Wireframes:
Developed low-fidelity wireframes to outline the platform's layout and information hierarchy.
Collaborated with stakeholders to gather initial feedback on wireframes.
Focused on data organization and user flow.
Design. Creating Design System
Step 5: Development of UI Concept:
Based on the references provided by the client, a style was created, and several style directions were also offered for selection. Stylistics was applied to several main screens to make it clear what the overall picture of the interface looks like.
Step 6: Development of All Flows with the Concept Chosen by Customers:
Having decided on the stylistics, we moved on to the elaboration of the flow, we discussed each flow with the clients on the call and approved or refined.
Step 7: Prototyping:
Created interactive prototypes to simulate user interactions and validate the design concept.
Conducted testing on the prototypes to identify any potential issues or improvements.
Made final adjustments and refinements based on user testing results.
Dev Support
Design goes beyond just the way things look; it's like the foundation for building a product. We supported the developers to make sure our idea became a real product.
Umoja is a decentralized credit protocol that provides fully secured, blended, and affordable financing to emerging market enterprises. The protocol crowdsources loan financing and collateral on-chain, enabling debt investors to fully control their default risk by renting collateral at any time during the loan’s maturity.
Umoja’s mission is to provide the world with risk-tolerant and affordable, open financial infrastructure to accelerate real financial inclusion.
The protocol incentivizes Liquidity Providers (senior tranche debt investors), Backers (junior tranche debt investors), Approvers (Underwriters), Collateral Providers, and Stakers (Default Insurers) to share the risk and reward of loan financing. By doing so, Umoja minimizes the cost of financing and helps lower the cost of capital for borrowers.
Additionally, Umoja will be the first, multi-currency lending protocol where loans can be denominated in any fiat currency, rather than just USD, EURO, and YEN, which are the main stablecoin pegs across DeFi’s existing ecosystem.
Solution This case study demonstrates the importance of each design step to make the interface for decentralized technologies accessible and user-friendly.
Discovery Phase
Step 1: Analysis of the White Paper:
Conducted a comprehensive analysis of the project's white paper to understand the technical and conceptual aspects of the protocol.
Collaborated with the development team to extract key features and functionalities.
Identified unique selling points and pain points that could inform the design.
Step 2: Research:
Conducted interviews with stakeholders to identify user requirements and pain points.
Researched existing decentralized protocols and their user interfaces to identify opportunities for improvement.
Step 3: Information Architecture:
Developed an information architecture plan outlining the organization of the platform's content.
Designed a clear navigation structure to ensure users could easily access and understand the complex protocol features.
Step 4: Low-Quality Wireframes:
Developed low-fidelity wireframes to outline the platform's layout and information hierarchy.
Collaborated with stakeholders to gather initial feedback on wireframes.
Focused on data organization and user flow.
Design. Creating Design System
Step 5: Development of UI Concept:
Based on the references provided by the client, a style was created, and several style directions were also offered for selection. Stylistics was applied to several main screens to make it clear what the overall picture of the interface looks like.
Step 6: Development of All Flows with the Concept Chosen by Customers:
Having decided on the stylistics, we moved on to the elaboration of the flow, we discussed each flow with the clients on the call and approved or refined.
Step 7: Prototyping:
Created interactive prototypes to simulate user interactions and validate the design concept.
Conducted testing on the prototypes to identify any potential issues or improvements.
Made final adjustments and refinements based on user testing results.
Dev Support
Design goes beyond just the way things look; it's like the foundation for building a product. We supported the developers to make sure our idea became a real product.
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