Onchain apps are composable, one app's infrastructure can plug into another, distributing investments seamlessly across a connected account. Brahma leveraged this composability through direct protocol partnerships, embedding badge-based recognition for each one. Badges unlocked as users engaged specific strategies, feeding into the app's broader reward system. I designed a subset of these badges, focusing on delight as a retention lever within the activation flow.

The core design challenge was balancing usability with a visual language that felt sleek without becoming intimidating. Implementing that aesthetic across the app, building out the design system, and enforcing consistency across every touchpoint was one of my key responsibilities.

Design Approach
Our aim was to make it intuitive and easy for newly onboarded users to use decentralized apps. Visually, I crafted a design that straddled on the fine line between simplicity and uniqueness bringing patterns from apps which average internet users are already familiar with for the ease of use. Blue remained primary color for the brand, with spring green providing vibrant accents, while maintaining a clean, light foundation for the UI components. Primary area of focus shifted to the subtler arts of user experience: seamless transitions, compelling copy, comprehensive user education, and crystal-clear readability. These elements wove together to create a framework of trust, guiding new users through the complex world of leveraging and investing with the comfort of a familiar interface.

My focus was automating investment flows within Berachain specifically. The ecosystem's reward mechanism required users to manually claim tokens on an unpredictable schedule, with epoch endings that weren't surfaced to users in any legible way. Working within Brahma's existing automation infrastructure, we shipped a set of automations solving this.

Brahma also built a reward token manager, giving users visibility into validator delegations and token boosts, flows that were previously cumbersome and manual. Automating this collapsed a multi-step, high-friction process into a single, passive one.

Closing note
Collaborating closely with the founders of a leading DeFi platform, and designing interfaces for one of its most consequential consumer flows, was a genuinely humbling experience. High-net-worth individuals relied on the product daily, executing high-volume transactions and investments through Brahma, work where the margin for design error was effectively zero.
As lead designer across multiple initiatives, from agentic workflows to trust-reinforcing UX for high-net-worth users, I learned how much interface decisions compound when the stakes are this high. The defining moment came when Brahma received, and accepted, an acquisition offer from Polymarket, a New York based company, with the deal closing in Q1 2026.