Top Analyst Says ETH User Experience Needs Improvement

Vitalik Buterin thinks that the user experience (UX) of Ethereum (ETH) still has a long way to go, especially when it comes to transactions.

In a new blog post, the person who made Ethereum says that “simple and robust” user interfaces (UI) are better than “fancy and sleek” ones.

“Good user experience is not about the average case, it is about the worst case. A UI that is clean and sleek, but does some weird and unexplainable thing 0.723% of the time that causes big problems, is worse than a UI that exposes more gritty details to the user but at least makes it easier to understand what’s going on and fix any problem that does arise.”

Buterin says that high transaction fees and a bad user experience make Ethereum users more likely to choose centralized solutions over on-chain, decentralized ones.

“User experience has made great strides over the years – in particular, going from an average transaction taking minutes to get included before EIP-1559 to an average transaction taking seconds to get included after EIP-1559 and the merge, has been a night-and-day change to how pleasant it is to use Ethereum. But more still needs to be done.”

At the time of writing, one Ethereum is worth $1,675. The second-largest crypto asset by market value is up 3.5% in 24 hours and 2% in 7 days.