UXCrypto is a research approach to investing in cryptocurrency. It breaks down projects into different areas to find their value. This tool is intended to assist you on your crypto journey and should not be considered financial advice.
UX crypto was dirived from the creation of a youtube channel and the strategy was created to try and help its user base.
When creating UXCrypto, I researched various content creators and private offerings to see how they presented their content. I noticed that many successful cryptocurrency projects had similar characteristics that made them fundamentally strong. This led me to explore strategies such as token metrics and unconventional ideas like the "Moneyball" strategy used by a US baseball team. Using this technique allowed me to identify the best projects early, often before others recognized their value.
For this project, I utilized my experience and knowledge, having been active in the cryptocurrency space since 2016. I broke down each project into seven categories: Teams & Advisors, Idea, Partners, Product, Website, Social Media, and Coin Utility. This breakdown made it possible to dissect each project and find value in each category.
The valuable part of my approach was filtering projects into a top 10 list for each category. This method allowed me to identify the best teams, for example, in AI. The cryptocurrency market is largely driven by narratives, and this cheatsheet gave users an edge by highlighting fundamentally strong projects.
I would research 1 coin per day 5 days a week for over a year which gave me a large data set to filter from. i would do this on paper and then later add it to the cheat sheet once i have finalised the score
I then utilising my strategy and went on a mission to apply this to various different coins in the cryptocurrency market. I reviewed a total of 219 coins giving me a large data set to filter the coins. The reviews usually took around an hour for each coin so as you can imagine this was a lot of time.
As I had the Buying strategy covered and what coins to accumulate this lead me to trying to help people on when the best time to sell your crypto is, this lead me to dig into my experience in the crypto market and gather all the signs and Indicators on when the crypto market was ready to get out off, this gave me a collection of 16 different indicators to help the users
This will be the default page that users will see at first allowing them to get instant value from the get go. The reason for going with this approach is to taylor the user experience to the general user and to not over whelm them at first but they have the ability to drill down deeper from this.
I used the concept of Netflix's "Top 10" component, which perfectly aligned with my goal for the crypto cheatsheet.
Originally this area was the main place that users would interact with but over time I noticed that users just wanted to see the main highlights of a project so this is why didn’t add this section into the navigation but you can get to this section if you want to dig in further and explore
This is where the most value is given to the user as it allows them to get deeper information on the scoring for each project as well as see what type of price predictions could be possible with different scenarios giving users a great overview on return of investment, you can also see recent trading data and where to buy the coins from. i made sure to supply this information for the users as when making the videos on YouTube the most asked questions where the above information.
I decided to add a search function so that it would be easier for the users to find specific coins they wanted to know the score for. i noticed that people would ask me to review coins that i already reviewed in the past so by adding a search function it would get them to a instant results without having to browse for it
I designed the narratives page to be in its own section as this is the main way that users would navigate through the cheat sheet previously so i dicided to use this information and design something that would help users find what they were looking for with ease. In crypto currency narratives are what make trends happen so this is why categorizing the coins into these has so much power and allows users to build portfolios based on narratives before they get popular.
This is where the real power of the cheat sheet comes in as the Top 10 categories can be filtered by narratives and you can see all of the top 10's in different filters such as low market caps and high market caps. As well as by the 7 different review pilers in the strategy. this makes it easier for users to find exactly what they are looking for in a narrative.
Sell Signals When designing this i used different trading patterns in the background of the tiles to show the difference in the indicators, i broke these up into the different time frames, the use when then be pushed to a trading view chart that shows how the indicator works and users can then apply it to their own trading view accounts.
Once i finished the UI i decided to prototype some of the main elements to put the site together. This shows how a user can navigate around the site digging into specific details if they need to our find coins by browsing or searching. Check out the video to see the whole experience
In this prototype its shows the entry point directly into the graph explorer app through the search modal. I used a tab component to not distract users from there main journey being search. With this method it will allow users explore the application if they wish to but also not to distract them from the main sales funnel.
With 265 videos made in a year and a half and 219 coins added to the cheat sheet with full on deep dive reviews I decided to stop the channel as it was taking over a lot of my time and taking away from my main passion as UX / UI Designer, I learned a lot from the experience and helped thousands of people who believed in my strategy with multiple projects making as much 10X returns in value, as it’s stands my research is still available to the general public and the strategy still stands for building a portfolio in the crypto currency market and I am expecting much more returns that have already occurred over a longer period of time, please see some of the great comments I received from the audience and users below
