Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable network offering low gas fees forever while maintaining true decentralization and solid security.
Year
2024
Background
Validator GUI
Shardeum required redesigning and rebuilding it's Validator GUI to improve mobile user experience, user-friendliness, brand consistency, and data visualisation.
Mobile User Experience Enhancement: The web app was slated for an upgrade to ensure full responsiveness across all devices, enhancing accessibility beyond desktop usage.
Enhancing User-Friendliness: The Validator GUI was set for a redesign to prioritise user flow and incorporate comprehensive UX research and improvements, enriching the overall user interaction.
Brand Alignment: Following Shardeum's brand refresh, the Validator GUI would be updated to reflect the new branding, ensuring consistency across all digital platforms.
Advanced Data Visualisation: The backend GUI (Express) is designed to effectively retrieve and display data from the CLI, with a current focus on expanding beyond performance metrics to include a wider array of accurate, real-time data.
Onboarding and FTUX
Dashboard operations
Connect Wallet: To allow validators to securely access and manage their staking operations and other activities through their cryptocurrency wallet.
Add Stake: To enable validators to increase their stake in the network, which is crucial for participating in network consensus and earning rewards.
Node Status Overview: To provide real-time information on the operational status of the validator node.
Stake overview: To give validators a comprehensive view of their staked assets and related activities.
Network Size overview: To provide validators with insights into the overall size and health of the Shardeum network.
Redeem Rewards: To allow validators to claim their earned rewards from staking activities.
Manage Logs: To enable validators to access, review, and manage system and application logs for better diagnostics and troubleshooting.
Configure Settings: To allow validators to customize and manage their node and staking configurations through a dedicated settings interface.
Summary
The Shardeum Validator GUI was significantly enhanced to improve user experience and functionality. The onboarding flow was streamlined to enable validators to get started in under one minute. The user interface received a comprehensive redesign for improved aesthetics and usability, including dedicated settings and log management pages. Data visualization was advanced, presenting more data points with better clarity, and overview panes were introduced to provide quick snapshots of system performance. These enhancements collectively aimed to create a more accessible, user-friendly, and data-rich environment for users.
