- Product Design
- DeFi
Simplifying DeFi Yield With Solen
Solen turns automated DeFi yield strategies on EDU Chain into a few clear steps: pick a vault, deposit, track it, redeem. Raymond designed the website, the app and the design system behind them.
- Client
- Open Campus
- Year
- 2025
- Led by
- Ray
- Status
- Shipped
The problem
Earning yield in DeFi usually means juggling several protocols, collateral ratios, token approvals and transaction steps, then keeping an eye on all of it. Solen’s vaults automate that work, lending, looping, compounding and rebalancing behind the scenes. The design challenge was the opposite of hiding it: make a complex system feel simple to use, while staying honest about how it works and what the risks are.
What we did
Raymond was the lead product designer, part of the wider Open Campus and Animoca Brands design work for the EDU Chain ecosystem. He designed the product end to end, on desktop and mobile:
- The website. A plain-spoken landing page with live headline numbers, the vaults on offer and a three-step “how it works”: pick a strategy, connect and deposit, track your rewards.
- Vault discovery. A scannable list that compares each vault’s asset, chain, rewards and total value locked at a glance.
- Vault detail. Everything needed to decide: the strategy in plain English, its leverage and audit details, a performance chart, and deposit and redeem actions in one place.
- Your position. Deposit, earned rewards, health factor and leverage, with a position allocation chart showing where the money sits.
- Redemptions and claims. One list of every exit request and its status, from pending to ready to claim.
- Design system. Reusable Figma components for cards, tables, charts, amount inputs and transaction states, ready for engineering handoff.
Notable decisions
- Progressive disclosure. Comparable headline numbers on the list, with the mechanics and risks one click away on the vault page.
- Keep different numbers apart. Projected yield, past performance, the amount deposited and rewards earned each get their own place, so nobody mistakes one for another.
- Yield is an estimate. APY is presented as variable, with risk details sitting next to it rather than buried in a footer.
- Confidence at every step. Wallet connection, amounts, pending transactions and claims each show exactly what’s happening.
Why it matters
Automation is only useful if people trust it. Whether it’s a yield vault or an AI workflow, the job is the same: let the system do the heavy lifting, and design an interface that shows clearly what it’s doing.