Galaxy

Web3
Product design

Galaxy is a DeFi platform built for traders who operate on both sides of a token's life — the pre-market window before liquidity exists anywhere else, and the volatile hours right after launch. Most interfaces in this space are built by engineers for engineers: dense, inconsistent, and unforgiving to anyone without a terminal's worth of context.

I was brought in to design the product end-to-end — information architecture, trading flows, and the visual system — with a brief to make a genuinely confusing market structure feel navigable without dumbing it down for the traders who actually live in it.

Trading on inherited complexity

Pre-market DeFi trading has no shared mental model — pricing, liquidity, and risk all behave differently before and after a token goes live, and most platforms just inherit the layout of a standard exchange and hope it holds. It doesn't. Traders were cross-referencing three browser tabs to answer one question: is this safe to enter right now.

One surface, two market states

Instead of bolting a pre-market mode onto an existing exchange UI, I designed Galaxy around the state transition itself — one surface that visibly changes character the moment a token crosses from pre- to post-market, so the interface teaches the market structure instead of hiding it.

Reading risk at a glance

Every listing carries a compact risk signature — liquidity depth, contract age, holder concentration — rendered as a single scannable strip instead of a wall of raw numbers. Traders could triage a token in seconds instead of opening a block explorer.

Designing for the handoff moment

The pre-to-post-market transition is when the most money moves and the least attention is available. I built a dedicated transition state — countdown, liquidity unlock, and first-trade price — so traders aren't guessing about what 'live' actually means.

Trading without losing context

Order entry sits in a persistent side panel rather than a modal, so traders can place and adjust positions without ever losing sight of the chart that justified the trade.

Full case study

Shipping a platform traders could reason about

Galaxy launched with a UI that treated market structure as the design problem, not an afterthought — built so the interface explains the market it's showing, instead of asking traders to already know it.

40+ screens trading flows, risk states & onboarding designed solo
2 market regimes pre- and post-market, unified into one system
8 weeks from brief to shipped v1

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