PoemWiki NFT Trading

PoemWiki / 2021 - Present

TEAM

Jackie Jiang – Product Designer
Alina Deng – Product Manager
Veco Lee – Developper
Jeff Sun – Developper

DELIVERABLES

User Research
Site Map
User Flow
Design System
Wireframes

From literature to crypto, create a mobile poetry community through NFT

As NFT art and crypto currency becomes popular worldwide, poets are equally searching for a better method to participate. PoemWiki, as the leading platform in China for independent poets to share works and for readers to follow writers they admire, aims to establish an ecosystem for digital poetry through NFT poems.

Unique Challenges

1.

The base version application is living within WeChat, which adds limitations and additional design guidelines to conform.

2.

The existing user group is highly diverse and consists a mixture of poets and readers.

3.

Small team of 4 people with a short timeframe and high pressure from investors.

UX Research

Competitive Analysis

Conducted a thorough analysis on three popular NFT art trading platform to gain a better understanding on the common practices and identify areas for innovation.

UX Survey

Two rounds of survey were conducted at the beginning stage of research and one during the user testing phase to better the product with users' expectations and gain insights on users' post purchasing interactions with the NFT poems.

Design Process

Site Map

The PoemWiki application has been running with a basic version that allows readers and writers to enjoy reading poems. The new NFT feature would be constructed on the foundation of the existing application structure.

Sketching

art NFT is a relatively new idea, let alone poem NFT. Many ideas come and got denied quickly, sketch comes in very handy at this stage to help sort through the ideation stage.

Wireframing

Decided the initial layout with basic wireframes in addition to sketching

Design System

Branding + Design System

From the very beginning, a versatile re-branding and design system is in need to launch the product in a more agile manner. A full set of component library and style guide is built in Figma for quick product.

User Interfaces

NFT Poem Discovery

To preserve the original reading experience, NFT trading feature is decided to be added through a more discrete manner for phase 1 launch. Using the bright color palette to add accent on the original interface to direct the users to discover the NFT poems.

NFT Listing

One of the most important aspect of the trading platform is its fluidity between purchasing and selling. The listing process of a collected NFT piece is designed to be simple with minimal clicks to allow users successfully list the NFT poems on their mobile device in just seconds.

Exchange and Gifting

The feature of exchange and gifting NFT poems is set to launch in future updates. The logic of recognizing the action "gifting" as an exchange without demanding a NFT for return has simplified the process and helped relief the developing stress.

Current State

Version 1.0 in Developing

Currently the launching date is set on March 1st for the first public release after two rounds of internal testing. The first simplified version 1.0 aims to gather more feedback on the reaction of existing users to allow adjustments before implementing the mint and exchange features. Stay tuned to see it live in Wechat!