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I challenged the core logic of a staking platform and reshaped its architecture to support 15+ networks

Pier Two is a blockchain infrastructure provider offering non-custodial staking for institutional clients. At the center of the product is the Control Centre - the primary tool where users manage digital assets, staking, unstaking, and monitoring positions in real time.

Role

  • Product Designer

Scope

  • Design audit

  • UX/UI design

  • Prototyping

  • Design System

Tools

  • Figma

  • ChatGPT

  • Notion

  • Jitter

Year

  • 2025

/* Problem */

The more networks the platform supported, the less reliable the experience became. The problem wasn’t that staking was inherently complex. It was that the product was structured in a way that made complexity harder to handle:

  • No shared mental model across networks

  • Account-first structure fragmenting the system view

  • Limited portfolio visibility across accounts and networks

Ultimately, the Control Centre wasn’t built to support multi-network staking at scale. That meant every new network added more friction, more adaptation, and less clarity for the user.

/* Solution */

Instead of improving individual screens, I restructured the product - shifting from an account-first model to a network-centered architecture.

This created a shared mental model across protocols, reduced relearning, and made staking operations consistent as new networks were added. I replaced fragmented, modal-heavy flows with a step-by-step experience in a single view, making system states and actions easier to understand.

Iteration 1

/* Assumption */

An incremental approach - improving the existing account-focused structure by reducing the number of modals and organizing data into a clearer table-based layout.

/* Results */

Not quite there - the experience remained tied to a single-account context, constraining users’ mental model and limiting the platform’s ability to scale.

Iteration 2

/* Assumption */

Shifting from account-level to network-level - fundamental shift to a network-based architecture - even though it required users to adjust their mental model, it created much clearer system visibility.

/* Results */

This is solid - the fully restructured staking/unstaking flows improved operational clarity, reframed the user mental model, and enabled the platform to scale across multiple networks. This felt worth the tradeoff of users relearning how things work.

Solution

/* Dashboard */

The dashboard shifts the product from fragmented account-by-account monitoring to a clearer cross-network view. It gives users a consolidated picture of stake metrics, recent actions, and positions in progress — reducing the visibility gaps that made the system harder to operate at scale.

Solution

/* Staking */

Staking as a core flow of Pier Two Control Centre puts users' assets to work to earn rewards. It's fully network-first: select a network, connect and link a wallet, then choose an amount to stake. The step-by-step, modal-free structure keeps things transparent and lets engineers freely add or remove fields per network, something previously hard to do.

Solution

/* Unstaking */

Unlike staking, unstaking is tied to the account assets were originally staked from - rewards can only be withdrawn there, though any wallet can connect, giving users a clearer view of where their assets are. The user selects an account, sees available assets to unstake, picks them, and withdraws.

Design system

To support the new architecture, I built a modular design system that could scale as new networks were added while keeping interactions and data patterns consistent across the product. Within Figma, this translated into a flexible component system of over 100 components, making complex product states easier to assemble, maintain, and extend across flows.

Project outcome

I restructured Pier Two’s fragmented account-first experience around networks, creating a clearer model for managing portfolios across multiple networks.

  • Reduced modal-based interactions by approximately 90%

  • Supported product expansion across 15+ networks

  • Built a design system with 100+ components designed to scale with the product

This is just a snapshot of the entire design process

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