A New UI For Coinbase

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1. It is a good platform as a trusted, safe, and compliant place to buy, sell, and hold at this proto stage of the ecosystem’s development, but as the ecosystem innovates and expands it will come to be a contradiction of the central message of the technology, decentralisation and atomic autonomy. I want hold my coin independent of any exchange or platform.

   1. Good luck with that. I wanted to run my own email server and did that until roughly 2005.

      1. Hard wallets are fine for holding, and popular – trezor, keepkey et.c.Openledger demonstrates the potential of a truly decentralised exchange.Initiatives like Waves are working hard to develop peer to peer processes of exchange.They’re all nascent stage, but evolving the space quite nicely. We can see where it’s all heading.Too many people offload, to politicians, media, banks, corporates, et.c., when they should be seeking out new options that mean they are not abdicating personal decision making power to others.

      2. If urbit works, then we will all be able to self-host our entire internet service stack! I would consider it. Email is not as much fun as it used to be.

      3. Presumably you wrote a blog post when you stopped running your own server? I’d love a link if so.

      4. Yes. This is the history of technology. At first you need to do everything yourself and then you can outsource it.Kind of sad but true.I could not tell you the processor in my computer or phone. I don’t know the speed of my wifi router. It outpaces my internet speed.Same for the office. We used to worry about the switches. Now you just put them in. Gigabit to every desktop. What’s the backplane? I don’t even know.

      5. Time to bail on Coinbase, B. Armstrong is running that company into the ground blocking new customers left and right.

   2. By the time that happens, on a fifth wave of innovation, printed bitcoin will be reinvented.. independent of any exchange or platform.

      1. the whole space could be a bulbcoin bubble, but i’m doubting it. 🙂

2. Well done to team. Much easier for consumers to see what their trading positions are. The old UI was a bit Web 1.0 (date-time ordered listicles) whereas this one is Web 2.0 (magazine layout, multiples view in one). I especially like the pricing graph.This tone of blue pops more than the old one and seems to reference Chase: https://uploads.disquscdn.c…Two suggestions:(1.) That green is the wrong tone match for the new blue. It’s too stark.https://uploads.disquscdn.c…(2.) Design team needs to make sure design & color updates are consistently applied throughout the site, including the screenshots on homepage.Those still show the old design schema. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…

   1. The green is way out of gamut. Never a good idea unless you are trying to be TOTALLY RAD!

      1. People have done studies with color and trading. If you have bright colors like orange, , yellow, red on your screen, it enhances fearful emotions. Green and blue softens emotion.

         1. There is green and then there is GREEN!

            1. True, and psychologically, being in the red hurts significantly more than being in the green

            2. Ocean green would be better with that new blue and it would soften the emotions.https://uploads.disquscdn.c…

            3. Indeed, this would be 30° adjacent on the ol’ color wheel.http://i.imgur.com/v3lCi2R.png

            4. Indeed and Coinbase should give us some Bitcoins / Ether for our design consulting. Haha.@fredwilson:disqus

            5. Ha, don’t bother. I just tried loggin into my coinbase account, which I haven’t done in months, since I changed my phone number and I can’t pass the 2 factor authentication. Authy is no help either.

            6. Depends where you are. In China and several other parts of Asia, red means prosperity. So red means up, green means down. Was in Beijing earlier this year when the markets were going steeply south. Took a while to understand why people were so downcast watching their apps and tickers that were *filled* with green!

            7. Coinbase’s green:https://uploads.disquscdn.c…

         2. Agree with the color commentary.orange, , yellow, red on your screenI wonder what the drill down is on colors with different cultures or for that matter races?For example, from my observation Chinese seem to favor red as a color and for that matter I’ve noticed patterns with blacks where they favor red, dark green, purple. [1] Point being depending on the culture you are immersed or raised in the color viewed could vary your reaction.Of course there are certain colors that I consistently like that don’t have anything to do with how I was raised however they bring to me pleasant feelings. (Island colors..)Speaking of red, gothamgal.com blog uses red and black and when I first saw it I immediately didn’t like it (to my taste).[1] Non scientific, observation only.

         3. Red… blood on the trading room floor.

3. Bravo!A move towards an understanding of a market and peoples usage is a huge step.Blockchain has been from my perspective somewhat devoid of a consumer–aka user–perspective and story.Action in this case shushes my kvetching. This is good.

   1. My kvetches remain unshushed. I still don’t see the consumer story.

      1. Not every technology change has a story for the public beyond the plumbing we all use and think bout not at all.Maybe in this case the story is in the usage, in the UI, not the vision nor the narrative.

         1. Right. You want to put in plumbing, sell me on water coming out of the tap. You want to sell me on digital assets… sell me on… what?

            1. I think its more, they tear out all the plumbing and put in new, the banks structures are more efficient, make more money and pass through the cost of the change to us.We see only the cost, not the savings.That is what I fear.

      2. Another words “I don’t buy it”. Why does fortune magazine throw out numbers like 2.5 billion exchanged when the numbers are not verified, easily manipulated and comprise 2 sides of a transaction. Who is speculating on Bitcoin, what’s the distribution of exchange transactions? Weak journalism.

         1. Coinbase press release fodder, written by a fintech PR firm based in NYC with journo contacts.

            1. yep, journalism is broken

4. the ecosystem is getting deeper. more and more SaaS type functionality which increases the demand.

5. I need to check them out now that they are accessible from Canada.

6. I don’t need a new interface. I need a way to buy and sell more than $3,000 of bitcoin (my limit on Coinbase). I’d love to build up my account, but not if it takes me months to buy and months to liquidate.

7. The redesign is great. It works well with the eye. [1]I would like to see the following added to the homepage at the top, next to products:[Why Coinbase?][Why Digital Currency?][Coinbase101?]Also missing (for end users and those not familiar with coinbase or digital currencies) is why coinbase should be trusted with someone’s money. The current “about” page attempts to do that but it is targeted toward the usual suspects in the tech business and not end mass users. Similar to confusion surrounding twitter “a club for those in the know where you have to learn the secret handshakes”. A business like this doesn’t have the assumption of legitimacy where no explaining is necessary at least with this particular service.[1] You can’t see it unless you have an account (other than viewing the article pix) as the homepage is exactly the same between beta and legacy versions.

8. A lot of this is the right stuff to doFresh UI + supporting multiple digital currencies is all great.But Coinbase needs an eBay equivalent to Paypal.An app and service that really demonstrate the power of Coinbase and the underlining tech.

9. Would love to see a better source of news and analysis in the app on both BTC and ETH. A trusted news source. There’s so much hype out there it’s difficult to know what’s real.

10. Unavailable in South Africa. BitX it is. So far only use for the Bitcoin I have bought has been digital purchase of data and airtime for me and family. V useful and effective on pay as you go accounts.

11. Ok, forget Bitcoins and Ether …Who’s up for a brain prosthetic? Apparently it’ll help with our memories.* http://spectrum.ieee.org/th… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…

    1. I’m in, only condition is.. no ads! 🙂

    2. Memory is over rated.

       1. Elon Musk is already working on “neural lace” apparently. He sees it as a way to control the AI.Gizmodo: “A group of chemists and engineers who work with nanotechnology published a paper this month in Nature Nanotechnology about an ultra-fine mesh that can merge into the brain to create what appears to be a seamless interface between machine and biological circuitry. Called “mesh electronics,” the device is so thin and supple that it can be injected with a needle — they’ve already tested it on mice, who survived the implantation and are thriving.”https://www.youtube.com/wat…@lawrencebrass:disqus — Which iPod color do you want it in or is it just Jet Black & Jet Black & Jet Black? Lol.

12. It goes without saying that the end-game for cryptocurrency exchanges is to make their user experience as easy as getting into an online bank account (if not easier). This is a good move, of course. Congratulations.

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14. The only way Coinbase can make progress is by taking stakes in startups engaged in innovation in fintech and blocktech.