Design Patterns for the DWeb
DWeb Camp · DWeb Camp · 2019
Product and UX discipline for protocol-heavy systems: how the decentralized web starts feeling like software people choose.
A lightning talk from the Internet Archive's DWeb Camp on a gap I kept hitting: the decentralized web had powerful protocols and almost no product or UX discipline.
Content addressing, peer-to-peer distribution, and user ownership are genuine advantages. But they were built by and for people who already understood the architecture. If decentralized systems are ever going to matter to normal people, someone has to translate the protocol into an experience: deciding what to hide, what to surface, and how ownership should feel in the hand.
That translation, taking something raw and technical and making it usable, is the through-line of everything I built on the open web.