Case study · 05Role · UX / UI DesignerStatus · ConceptPlatforms · Mobile app

plur.

A plural wallet. Built around the people you already trust. Replaces the 12-word seed phrase with a quorum of four guardians, any three of whom can rebuild your account.

Plur Wallet phone mockup centred on a flat-lay of overlapping translucent colour panels
01 · The project

A wallet about trust, not trading.

Plur is a self-initiated wallet concept. Crypto’s hardest problem has never been speed, fees, or pretty charts. It is trust. The current answer, a 12-word phrase you must protect forever, fails the people it is meant to help.

The concept replaces that all-or-nothing setup with a quorum of guardians, chosen by the user, who can rebuild the account from any device. Everything else follows: the Wallet, the Gallery, the Discover portal, the Profile.

Deliverables
  • Concept research synthesis across five competing wallets
  • 6-feature concept brief grounded in user fears, not feature parity
  • Brand naming and visual identity · wordmark, palette, type system
  • Interactive Figma prototype
  • Flow studies: hold-to-sign, recovery quorum, guardian co-sign
02 · Research

Five wallets,
one missing fundamental.

Before drawing Plur, I studied how today’s wallets handle the moment users fear most: losing the keys. Each gets one thing right. None of them rethink recovery.

  • The existing solution

    MetaMask

    Functional but cold. Browser-first onboarding still hinges on a 12-word seed phrase. Anything beyond a basic ETH transfer feels unsupervised.

    Influenced Plur’s
    Active Protection · Radical Clarity
  • The aesthetic solution

    Rainbow

    First wallet that felt designed. The NFT-first gallery proved aesthetics matter in crypto. The seed phrase model itself stays untouched.

    Influenced Plur’s
    Aesthetic Gallery
  • The hardware solution

    Ledger

    Security through isolation. Excellent for cold storage. Brutal for daily mobile use. Recovery still relies on a physical phrase you must not lose.

    Influenced Plur’s
    Active Protection · Inclusive Identity
  • The abstraction solution

    Ready

    Account abstraction makes onboarding faster and gas optional. Social recovery is present, but feels bolted on rather than central.

    Influenced Plur’s
    No-Seed Social Recovery
  • The custodial bridge

    Coinbase

    Imported familiar web2 patterns. Trust delegated to Coinbase rather than the user’s own circle. Convenient, but not yours.

    Influenced Plur’s
    Curated Discover Portal
All five treat recovery as a corner case. Plur treats it as the headline.
From research

Six features that survived the synthesis.

  • 01Feature

    No-Seed Social Recovery

    Quorum of guardians replaces the 12-word phrase. Any three of four can rebuild your account from any device.

  • 02Feature

    Radical Clarity

    Plain language at the point of decision. Approvals, fees, and counterparties spelled out before they cost anything.

  • 03Feature

    Active Protection

    Daily spending limits with guardian co-sign for anything above. Suspicious approvals raise a high-friction modal.

  • 04Feature

    Aesthetic Gallery

    NFT-first display where the artwork is the headline. Procedural placeholders even for unminted slots.

  • 05Feature

    Curated Discover Portal

    Audited app shortlist with scoped permissions by default. Unverified apps surface a CAUTION badge upfront.

  • 06Feature

    Inclusive Identity

    @name.plur replaces the 0x address as the public handle. Verified badge, member-since date, reputation score, all native to the wallet.

03 · Concept

Plur, plural,
by design.

The name comes from two places at once. Both point at the same thing: a wallet whose security belongs to a circle, not a single person.

  • From plural

    More than one. Never one alone.

    Plur takes its name from the Latin pluralis. The wallet’s defining move follows directly from the word: security held by more than one party. The seed phrase trusts one person with everything. Plur trusts four people with shares of one account.

  • From PLUR

    Peace, love, unity, respect.

    PLUR is also a rave-era promise about how strangers should treat each other inside a crowded room. The wallet borrows that ethos: a community built on respect, not policed by code. Trust starts with the people around you, before any cryptography is invoked.

Plur is not a brand built around the user alone. It is a brand built around their circle.
04 · Brief

Recovery is not a corner case.
It is the product.

The wallet is the smallest possible expression of one idea: keys owned by your circle, not by a phrase you must protect alone.

  • INSIGHT

    The seed phrase is the worst onboarding in software. Users lose theirs, store them insecurely, or never trust them. I built Plur around the alternative: a quorum where any three of four guardians can rebuild your account.

  • MOVE

    I promoted the quorum from a setup flow to a permanent piece of UI. The four guardians appear, named and live, on the home screen. Every transfer remembers who is watching it happen.

  • VOICE

    I treated the wallet like a precision instrument. Geometric sans, monospace data, hairline divisions, a single live-lime accent. Calm, exact, premium.

05 · Identity

Quiet wordmark.
Loud telemetry.

The product itself reads cold, technical, premium. The case study presents the same palette and type system the wallet uses inside the device. Black surfaces, hairline rules, a single live-lime accent that only appears when the system is acting.

WORDMARK · LIVE
SPACE GROTESK / 500
plur.
NEG-TRACKED · −0.06EMSIGNATURE PERIOD: ACCENT/LIME
PALETTE
BG#060606
SURF·1#0E0E0F
SURF·2#161618
SURF·3#1E1E22
FG#F6F6F4
FG·DIM#6C6C6A
ACCENT#C8FF4D
TYPE
DISPLAY
Aa
Space Grotesk

Geometric, like a precision instrument.

BODY
Aa
Geist

Clinical clarity for the rest.

DATA
01
JetBrains Mono

Money, not prose; numbers align.

Your keys, split across four guardians.
$15,320.45 · QUORUM 3/4 · BASE
06 · Product

Five tabs. Four flows.
One quorum.

The home screen surfaces the balance as the headline. The quorum row links straight into Trust. Every transfer waits for a hold, every NFT mint waits for a scan.

Plur Wallet home screen with net worth, quorum row, and asset list

The Wallet home. Balance as headline, four named guardians live in the row beneath it, daily limit visible without scrolling.

Five tabs · one mental model

I studied five crypto wallets first. The five-tab structure I landed on came out of those patterns, but each tab carries its own design moves: the live guardian row in Wallet, Mint Safely’s pre-mint scan in Gallery, the high-risk approval modal in Discover, and the four-guardian quorum in Trust that replaces the 12-word seed phrase. Profile sits apart from the safety surfaces (Wallet, Trust, Discover) on purpose: identity is shown, not used as a lock.

  • Plur Wallet wallet tab
    01Wallet
  • Plur Wallet gallery tab
    02Gallery
  • Plur Wallet discover tab
    03Discover
  • Plur Wallet trust tab
    04Trust
  • Plur Wallet profile tab
    05Profile

  • The balance is the headline. The guardians are the dateline.

  • Quorum 3/4 shown as live telemetry, not buried in settings.

  • Hold-to-sign reads progress in the button itself.

07 · Flows

Four flows, walked
through.

These four moments earned their own walk-through. I picked them because each tests a different promise of the brief. Send sits at the heart of daily use. Recovery is the spine of the wallet. Mint Safely is where Active Protection earns its name. The high-risk approval modal is where the wallet refuses to be rushed.

Send · Hold to sign

From amount to confirmed

Compose a transfer, review the impact, hold the button while the system signs. Three frames, one motion.

  1. Plur Send compose screen, amount and recipient
    01Compose
  2. Plur Send signing screen, hold-to-sign progress fill
    02Hold to sign
  3. Plur Send confirmation screen, transaction sent
    03Sent
Recovery · 3 of 4 quorum

Wallet rebuilds, no phrase asked

A new device requests recovery. Three of four guardians sign. The fourth can be offline. The wallet survives.

  1. Plur Trust circle constellation with four guardians
    01Trust circle
  2. Plur recovery prompt on a new device
    02New device
  3. Plur recovery collecting guardian signatures
    03Collecting signatures
  4. Plur recovery complete, welcome back screen
    04Recovered
NFT Mint Safely · Active Protection

Over-limit, with a guardian co-sign

Plur audits the contract first. The mint pushes the user above the daily limit, so a guardian co-signs before the transaction broadcasts.

  1. Plur NFT detail screen with mint price and metadata
    01Collectible
  2. Plur Mint Safely scanning the contract
    02Scan
  3. Plur over-limit warning awaiting guardian co-sign
    03Co-sign
  4. Plur mint confirmation screen with transaction hash
    04Minted
Set approval for all · High-risk permission

When the contract asks for everything

A connected app requests unlimited approval over every NFT in the wallet. Plur stops the flow, surfaces what was detected, and locks the destructive CTA behind a typed sentence.

  1. Plur Wallet high-risk permission modal with a disabled red CTA and an empty type-the-sentence input
    01Friction
  2. Plur Wallet high-risk permission modal with the sentence typed and the red I UNDERSTAND CTA active
    02Unlocked
08 · Prototype

Watch each flow
move.

Three short prototype walkthroughs for the moments that earned animation. Onboarding walks the four steps without a seed phrase. Recovery animates the quorum. Mint Safely waits for a guardian co-sign. The high-risk approval modal stays still in Flows above, because its whole point is to stop motion.

01Onboarding

Four steps, no seed phrase. The user picks a @name, chooses four guardians, the wallet activates. Each step uses what the user already has, a contact, a face, a phone in the room.

02Recovery · 3-of-4 quorum

A new device asks the guardian circle to vouch. Three of the four guardians sign, the fourth stays offline, and the wallet still recovers. No phrase, no password.

03NFT Mint Safely

Plur audits the contract before the user pays. The mint pushes above the daily limit, so a guardian co-signs before the transaction broadcasts. Active Protection in motion.

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