Principles for designing user-friendly decentralized applications, or “dapps.” The author, beltran, proposes guidelines to help developers build dapps that convey key properties of blockchain technology like decentralization, transparency and trustlessness.
The principles focus on radical transparency so users understand where data comes from, implications of transactions, and can verify the code and service. Specific guidelines include clearly distinguishing on-chain data from off-chain, linking to blockchain explorers, managing transaction wait times, using human-readable formats for hashes and addresses, and integrating educational content for new users.
Beltran also suggests principles for conveying a sense of community and governance. The comprehensive framework aims to make dapps feel approachable and trustworthy for mainstream adoption, so anyone can immediately understand they are interacting with blockchain-powered applications.
