As a team full of decentralised finance maximalists, we’re bullish on Hyperliquid’s potential and market adoption. The thing is, the Hyperliquid team doesn’t seem to pay much attention to their mobile UI/UX, making it difficult to manage our positions on the go.

The project was proposed by one of our founders, Shao, and the core development team consisted of two people: backend/crypto contract engineer Opass and me on the design and frontend.

There were a few mobile apps built on top of the Hyperliquid infrastructure, but all of them required you to sign up for a brand new account with a wallet and make a deposit to start trading. As traders already using Hyperliquid, we were looking for an extension app to manage our trades while we were away from our desks. We wanted to manage them seamlessly with the same wallet we’d already connected to Hyperliquid.

I learned a lot about traders’ behaviour and how trading works during development, as I’d been a holder prior to this. I collected opinions and information through conversations with a few active members of the Hyperliquid community. From there, I was more certain that they wanted something that served as an extension, was simple to operate and offered cheaper trading fees.

With those insights, my goal for the app UI was to preserve Hyperliquid’s UX logic for trading and managing positions, and provide a smooth, guided flow for onboarding and funding accounts.

My fellow builder, Opass, had strong opinions and knowledge about architecture design; it was a joy working with someone who was talented and happy to share insights with others. We worked in parallel with coding agents and submitted the app within 2 months. Although the founders decided not to take the project public in the end, I walked away more confident about how trading works and my ability to ship lightning fast when there’s an idea to validate.