Ledger
Self-custody without the cold sweat.
- Year:
- 2025
- Timeframe:
- 8 weeks
- Tools:
- Figma, React
- Category:
- Web3
Overview
Making a custody brand feel as solid as a vault door.
Custody platforms ask ordinary people to behave like security engineers. Ledger's brief was to move the confidence from the manual into the brand. We cut an L monogram with the profile of a stacked ledger, debossed it into matte black across every touchpoint, and carried the same plain-language voice into the product — balances, approvals, and signing all speak human first.
Problem
Every existing flow treated the seed phrase ceremony as a test the user could fail. One mistyped word and people abandoned the product — or worse, photographed the phrase.
Solution
A guided recovery ritual with clear checkpoints: the app confirms each step in plain words, approvals queue where you can see them, and the riskiest actions read differently from the safe ones. Support tickets about recovery dropped to near zero in beta.
Contact
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