Disco.xyz

Design lead work on decentralised identity, Verifiable Credentials, and developer-facing attestation infrastructure.

2022-2023

Design Lead at Disco.xyz, working on decentralised identity, Verifiable Credentials, and developer-facing attestation infrastructure.

Operated across design, engineering, and business development. Spoke on behalf of the company at conferences and directed teams at hackathons.

Led the design team and absorbed front-end engineers into a single unit. Established a rapid-experimentation practice: skunkworks experiments with fast user testing and feedback cycles to establish core loops. Doubled core user actions within four months.

Set quality standards and design system consistency. Spearheaded a Next.js rebuild of disco.xyz to address severe reliability issues, and moved off existing identity infrastructure providers toward web3-native methods, eliminating upstream dependencies.

Established a rapid design and development practice with business and community leads, scaffolding alternative Verifiable Credential surfaces: attendance protocols, and POAP-style attendance. Entirely private, user-controlled, and verifiable.

Via skunkworks, discovered that trust assumptions lie with interfaces, not with user wallets. Users were comfortable with companies creating credentials about them rather than self-attesting everything. Scaffolded a platform where developers and companies could deliver attestations to users, with deeper features like revocation registries.