Product designer with over 5 years of experience building fintech, privacy, security, and

bitcoin products.

ALEX SHARP

Zeus

Current design lead for the bitcoin mobile lightning wallet and node manager Zeus where I am responsible for all aspects of the design process.

Main Responsibilities

  • Created and maintained a design system for mobile and web

  • Redesigned the entire mobile application from scratch

  • Building interactive prototypes and using them to conduct UX research

  • Design maintainer on the Zeus open-source GitHub repo

Bitcoin Design

Guide

I was funded by Spiral to contribute bitcoin UX research to The Bitcoin Design Community's Bitcoin Design Guide. This is an open-source resource used to assist bitcoin application designers in building products.

Main Responsibilities

  • Primary maintainer of The Bitcoin Design Guide GitHub repo and The Bitcoin Design Community

  • Conducted UX research on bitcoin daily spending wallets that use the lightning network

  • Conducted UX research on bitcoin daily savings wallets that focus on multi-sig

Fedi

I assisted the lead designer in designing and creating an interactive prototype.

Main Responsibilities

  • Conducted extensive design research and explorations alongside the product manager and development team

  • Designed the first app MVP and created an interactive prototype for user testing

The Bitcoin

Company

As the sole product designer on this project I was responsible for all aspects of the design process.

Main Responsibilities

  • Created and maintained a design system for mobile and web

  • Redesigned the current mobile app giving it a new look and added new features such as card linked offers (CLOs), a bitcoin exchange, and a more comprehensive shopping experience

Small projects

Open-source design

I’ve contributed design work to dozens

of open-source projects. You can view my contributions on my GitHub.

Design Crits

I regularly conducted open design crits on bitcoin projects during my time with Spiral. These can be found on my Figma.

Articles

I’ve dabbled into writing design related

articles on Medium. Looking to do more of this in 2023.

Presentation

Talked about bitcoin and open-source design at COSCUP 2022.

Product designer with over 5 years of experience building fintech, privacy, security, and bitcoin products.

ALEX SHARP

Zeus

Current design lead for the bitcoin mobile lightning wallet and node manager Zeus where I am responsible for all aspects of the design process.

Main Responsibilities

  • Created and maintained a design system for mobile and web

  • Redesigned the entire mobile application from scratch

  • Building interactive prototypes and using them to conduct UX research

  • Design maintainer on the Zeus open-source GitHub repo

Bitcoin Design Guide

I was funded by Spiral to contribute bitcoin UX research to The Bitcoin Design Community's Bitcoin Design Guide. This is an open-source resource used to assist bitcoin application designers in building products.

Main Responsibilities

  • Primary maintainer of The Bitcoin Design Guide GitHub repo and The Bitcoin Design Community

  • Conducted UX research on bitcoin daily spending wallets that use the lightning network

  • Conducted UX research on bitcoin daily savings wallets that focus on multi-sig

Fedi

I assisted the lead designer in designing and creating an interactive prototype.

Main Responsibilities

  • Conducted extensive design research and explorations alongside the product manager and development team

  • Designed the first app MVP and created an interactive prototype for user testing

The Bitcoin Company

As the sole product designer on this project I was responsible for all aspects of the design process.

Main Responsibilities

  • Created and maintained a design system for mobile and web

  • Redesigned the current mobile app giving it a new look and added new features such as card linked offers (CLOs), a bitcoin exchange, and a more comprehensive shopping experience

Open-source design

I’ve contributed design work to dozens

of open-source projects. You can view my contributions on my GitHub.

Design Crits

I regularly conducted open design crits on bitcoin projects during my time with Spiral. These can be found on my Figma.

Small projects

Articles

I’ve dabbled into writing design related

articles on Medium. Looking to do more of this in 2023.

Presentation

Talked about bitcoin and open-source design at COSCUP 2022.

Product designer with 5+ years of experience building fintech, privacy, security, and bitcoin products.

ALEX SHARP

Zeus

Current design lead for the bitcoin mobile lightning wallet and node manager Zeus where I am responsible for all aspects of the design process.

Main Responsibilities

  • Created and maintained a design system for mobile and web

  • Redesigned the entire mobile application from scratch

  • Building interactive prototypes and using them to conduct UX research

  • Design maintainer on the Zeus open-source GitHub repo

Bitcoin Design Guide

I was funded by Spiral to contribute bitcoin UX research to The Bitcoin Design Community's Bitcoin Design Guide. This is an open-source resource used to assist bitcoin application designers in building products.

Main Responsibilities

  • Primary maintainer of The Bitcoin Design Guide GitHub repo and The Bitcoin Design Community

  • Conducted UX research on bitcoin daily spending wallets that use the lightning network

  • Conducted UX research on bitcoin daily savings wallets that focus on multi-sig

Fedi

I assisted the lead designer in designing and creating an interactive prototype.

Main Responsibilities

  • Conducted extensive design research and explorations alongside the product manager and development team

  • Designed the first app MVP and created an interactive prototype for user testing

The Bitcoin Company

As the sole product designer on this project I was responsible for all aspects of the design process.

Main Responsibilities

  • Created and maintained a design system for mobile and web

  • Redesigned the current mobile app giving it a new look and added new features such as card linked offers (CLOs), a bitcoin exchange, and a more comprehensive shopping experience

Open-source design

I’ve contributed design work to dozens

of open-source projects. You can view my

contributions on my GitHub.

Design Crits

I regularly conducted open design crits on

bitcoin projects during my time with Spiral.

These can be found on my Figma.

Articles

I’ve dabbled into writing design related

articles on Medium. Looking to do more of

this in 2023.

Small projects

Presentations

Talked about bitcoin and open-source design at COSCUP 2022.

Product designer with 5+ years of experience building fintech, privacy, security, and

bitcoin products.

ALEX SHARP

Zeus

Current design lead for the bitcoin mobile lightning wallet and node manager Zeus where I am responsible for all aspects of the design process.

Main Responsibilities

Created and maintained a design system for mobile and web

Redesigned the entire mobile application from scratch

Building interactive prototypes and using them to conduct UX research

Design maintainer on the Zeus open-source GitHub repo

Bitcoin Design

Guide

I was funded by Spiral to contribute bitcoin UX research to The Bitcoin Design Community's Bitcoin Design Guide. This is an open-source resource used to assist bitcoin application designers in building products.

Main Responsibilities

Primary maintainer of The Bitcoin Design Guide GitHub repo and The Bitcoin Design Community

Conducted UX research on bitcoin daily spending wallets that use the lightning network

Conducted UX research on bitcoin daily savings wallets that focus on multi-sig

Fedi

I assisted the lead designer in designing and creating an interactive prototype.

Main Responsibilities

Conducted extensive design research and explorations alongside the product manager and development team

Designed the first app MVP and created an interactive prototype for user testing

The Bitcoin

Company

As the sole product designer on this project I was responsible for all aspects of the design process.

Main Responsibilities

Created and maintained a design system for mobile and web

Redesigned the current mobile app giving it a new look and added new features such as card linked offers (CLOs), a bitcoin exchange, and a more comprehensive shopping experience

Small projects

Open-source design

I’ve contributed design work to dozens

of open-source projects. You can view my contributions on my GitHub.

Design Crits

I regularly conducted open design crits on bitcoin projects during my time with Spiral. These can be found

on my Figma.

Articles

I’ve dabbled into writing design related

articles on Medium. Looking to do more of this in 2023.

Presentation

Talked about bitcoin and open-source design at COSCUP 2022.