About Me
I'm an Indonesia-based Product & UI/UX Designer with four years in product, three of them designing crypto, Web3, and investing products for both retail investors and institutions. My full name is Yohanes Nico Kristiawan. If it's easier, you can call me Nico. I care about interfaces that stay calm where it matters — in products that move money, a confusing screen has a real cost.
My work spans staking, institutional trading dashboards, internal tools, and the design systems underneath them. I came into design through research, and it still shapes how I work: check before drawing, test after shipping. Lately I build what I design too, which sits closer to design engineering than to handing off a file.
I'm currently working at Nanovest, and previously contributed to more digital products.
Works
Selected product design work across crypto, Web3, and fintech.
Building a flexible institutional investment platform that could grow from simple OTC execution into more advanced trading and asset management workflows.
Reimagining a Web3 campaign hub into a more engaging, game-inspired experience for campaigns, rewards, progress, and community activity.
Expanding Nanovest Earn into a multi-asset experience that could support different earning programs, entry points, maturity options, and transaction states within one consistent journey.
Redesigning a complex Web3 platform into a clearer, scalable marketing experience across product, use cases, and conversion journeys.
An editorial website for a fashion, beauty, and lifestyle communication studio. Oversized typography, cinematic photography, and chapter-based navigation turn the studio’s identity and selected work into an interactive brand story.
Company profile concept for interior and hospitality studio, combining warm space photography with a bold navy and royal blue identity.
A responsive beauty storefront for Maren, combining warm editorial photography, minimal typography, and interactive product discovery. A shade carousel pairs each product with a matching background color and smooth transitions.
Landing page concept for an AI dating coach, combining warm lifestyle imagery, calm typography, and conversational guidance from the first match to the date debrief.
UI Studies
Standalone UI studies exploring layouts, visual details, and interface patterns.
Blog
09.2026A Product Designer’s Toolkit for Better Design DiscussionsProduct designers often move between different modes of thinking. We explore possibilities, evaluate existing solutions, challenge assumptions, and validate ideas with users. To…
09.20265 Design Engineers You Should Be Studying Right NowDesign engineering isn’t just about making UI look good.
It’s about making software feel right — through interaction, motion, craft, and countless tiny decisions most people never notice.
Here are 5 people I keep looking up to when it comes to that craft.08.2026Vibe Coding for Product Designers: From Figma to Working ProductsAs a Product Designer starting to explore AI-assisted coding, the part I find most interesting is not the ability to “build apps with prompts.” It is the ability to move beyond…All Posts
