Ocean Starfish | Open Source Branding | Ocean Starfish | Open Source Branding | Round 19

Project Name

Ocean Starfish | Open Source Branding


Project Category

Build & Integrate


Proposal Earmark

New Entrants


Proposal Description

Ocean Starfish | Open Source Branding intends to revamp branding and design for projects building out from OceanDAO, giving the projects a market-ready visual & product design positioning helping them navigate away from the current generic design systems in place.

Design plays an incredibly important role in the uptake and adoption of web3. As most users will be onboarded into the world of blockchain through dApps, how they journey through this technical space can be heavily hindered or supported by design.

We would be picking up key Ocean Ecosystem projects, one at a time, and build the following for each of the Ocean Ecosystem Projects we work on.

  • Branding Manual with Style Guides
  • Redesigning UI screens for the product in-line with the brand value and vision.
  • Working on setting up a website where revamped Ocean Ecosystem projects are showcased.
  • Make all files open-source, available for download via simple wallet login.

Proof of Work: Designed a version of Algovera’s product : https://www.figma.com/file/IcTokseJzkqh8dtzVABlV9/Indian-Ocean-X-Algovera


Grant Deliverables

  • Branding revamp for 3 Ocean ecosystem projects
  • These include brand manuals, style-guides and screens with a working prototype.
  • Functional website (with a roadmap to become a dApp) with project showcase and downloadable brand assets.

Project Description

Proposal Description

Ocean Starfish | Open Source Branding intends to revamp branding and design for projects building out from OceanDAO, giving the projects a market-ready visual & product design positioning helping them navigate away from the current generic design systems in place.

Design plays an incredibly important role in the uptake and adoption of web3. As most users will be onboarded into the world of blockchain through dApps, how they journey through this technical space can be heavily hindered or supported by design.

We would be picking up key Ocean Ecosystem projects, one at a time, and build the following for each of the Ocean Ecosystem Projects we work on.

  • Branding Manual with Style Guides
  • Redesigning UI screens for the product in-line with the brand value and vision.
  • Working on setting up a website where revamped Ocean Ecosystem projects are showcased.
  • Make all files open-source, available for download via simple wallet login.

Grant Deliverables

  • Branding revamp for 3 Ocean ecosystem projects
  • These include brand manuals, style-guides and screens with a working prototype.
  • Functional website (with a roadmap to become a dApp) with project showcase and downloadable brand assets.

Project Description

Ocean Starfish is a new initiative we intend to start to assist the community in building design experiences for Ocean Ecosystem Projects. We aim to collaborate with key projects from the DAO and assist them with correct brand positioning, based on their respective market and end-user, to help them with correct value proposition design keeping in mind the roadmaps each project has in terms of their scaling goals.

Ocean Starfish intends to aid the community with rebranding (or in some cases, branding from scratch) and building refined functional prototypes with logical userflows and future-proof design. We believe in making UI where we’re confident that the final product can be developed, shipped and maintained sustainably.

Ocean Starfish would work constantly with other ecosystem projects to lower the barrier for entry a user generally faces on their project.

With 20 months of OceanDAO soon approaching, we believe it’s a good time to see Ocean Ecosystem ship the current existing mature products with ready-for-market design experiences for the end-user.

Value Add Criteria

Community active-ness: Being a part of the community and collaborating with various projects in the Ocean Ecosystem is the key part of the project. Ocean Starfish will be actively holding conversations with various projects

Adding value to the overall community: As people learn about blockchain and its potential, it’s on the onus of designers to help people overcome the learning curve of blockchain. Starfish will enable the community to overcome this bottleneck.

Proof of Work: Designed a version of Algovera’s product : https://www.figma.com/file/IcTokseJzkqh8dtzVABlV9/Indian-Ocean-X-Algovera


Final Product

An Ocean sub-DAO for Product Design Services (a healthy mix of free & paid services)


Value Add Criteria


Community active-ness: Being a part of the community and collaborating with various projects in the Ocean Ecosystem is the key part of the project. Ocean Starfish will be actively holding conversations with various projects


Adding value to the overall community: As people learn about blockchain and its potential, it’s on the onus of designers to help people overcome the learning curve of blockchain. Starfish will enable the community to overcome this bottleneck.


Core Team

Arpit Jain

Discord: majorcrap:5135

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arpitonethree/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/4rp17

Background & Experience

  • Product & Growth at Chewy - A Web3 enabled diet & fitness app
  • 10 year experience in digital marketing & product design

Advisors

Dr. Prakash

Github: https://github.com/drprk 11 1

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drprk/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrJohnD0e

Background & Experience

  • Member of Core-Tech WG, Project Guiding WG & Parameters-roadmap WG
  • Health-Tech Professional Consultant
  • Medical graduate, Masters in Medical engineering & Health-tech industrial experience
  • 6 years of Industry experience in Medical AI products

Funding Requested
3000


Minimum Funding Requested
500


Wallet Address
0x4cE18e390c619eb1A8E5Dc92Fd3D8343F5D32170


Hi there,

Thank you for applying for R-19!

I am a Project Guide and have assigned myself to help you.

We have attempted to make your first grant easy to earn (you are registered in the New Entrant Earmark) I would also recommend one (or all) of the following to increase support:

  1. Saying hi to the community in #ocean-dao and sharing your proposal.
  2. Saying hi to members of the #project-guiding WG and sharing your proposal.
  3. Meet with the Guides assigned to you by the #project-guiding WG.
  4. Attend a Town Hall or Project-Guiding WG meeting to talk about your project and proposal.

Your proposal has been registered into the grants program, however we would like to know if you have other core team members involved in your project?

Please refer to the Grant Proposal Template and the OceanDAO Airtable for more information.

All the best!

Queenpat

Hello @Queenpat,

There aren’t any more core team members as of yet, as the intention remains to build quality over quantity. However, I would be more than willing to collaborate with the interested designers from the community.

Best,
Arpit