Designers, listen up.
You are not crafting art for the ages.
You’re creating UI relics in a space where forks are faster than fame, and the only permanence is code on a chain.
You’re creating UI relics in a space where forks are faster than fame, and the only permanence is code on a chain.
The blockchain may be immutable.
Your design? Not so much.
Your design? Not so much.
⏳ Web3 Moves Like Time on Adderall
Projects die.
Chains get abandoned.
Communities vanish overnight.
Chains get abandoned.
Communities vanish overnight.
And yet… we design like we’re sculpting marble.
“Memento Mori” — Remember you must die.
In design terms: Your interface will be obsolete in six months. Maybe sooner.
The aesthetic graveyard is littered with once-loved UIs. SushiSwap v1. Old OpenSea. Early DAO dashboards.
What are they now? JPEG fossils in GitHub tombs.
What are they now? JPEG fossils in GitHub tombs.
🧬 Designing in the Age of Forks
Web3 doesn’t iterate—it fragments.
Your clean, minimalist layout? Forked into 5 clones, 3 rugs, and a casino dApp by next month.
“In an open-source ecosystem, your worst design is someone else’s MVP.”
So stop acting like it’s sacred.
Design like it will be copied. Twisted. Rugged.
Design like it will outlive your intention—but not your responsibility.
Design like it will be copied. Twisted. Rugged.
Design like it will outlive your intention—but not your responsibility.
🧠 Kafka’s Warning for UI Designers
"The truth is indivisible. It cannot lose itself, and it cannot find itself." — Kafka, Zürau Aphorisms
Your design is not the truth. It’s an interface to interact with something that might be.
Don’t mistake a beautiful frontend for ethical functionality.
A rug with rounded corners is still a rug.
A rug with rounded corners is still a rug.
🔥 Burnout by Beauty
Designers in Web3 often burn out fast.
Why? Because they build like this will last—only to watch it crash.
Why? Because they build like this will last—only to watch it crash.
That leads to:
- Cynicism
- Gatekeeping
- Robotic Figma clones
Break the cycle.
Design for the now, not the eternity.
💡 Rules for Designing with Impermanence
- Design with modularity – It will be forked.
- Design with transparency – You’re not the product, but someone might be.
- Design with speed – The window of innovation closes fast.
- Design with detachment – Let go of ownership. Blockchain is shared memory.
💀 Final Thought
Web3 is the most impermanent permanent thing ever created.
Your work lives forever on-chain, yet dies in relevance in a single cycle.
Your work lives forever on-chain, yet dies in relevance in a single cycle.
So the question is:
Will your design haunt users like a ghost…
Or inspire them like a prophecy?
Design accordingly.
📢 Tag your fellow pixel sorcerers
💬 What’s the oldest Web3 UI you still love?
🪦 What’s the worst design you regret ever shipping?
⚡ Drop your thoughts, your sins, or your figma ghosts below.
🪦 What’s the worst design you regret ever shipping?
⚡ Drop your thoughts, your sins, or your figma ghosts below.