Wagyu Wallet · Design exploration · 22 July 2026

Ten directions for one wallet.

Ten self-contained HTML files, each a complete visual direction for the same product: a Monero-first self-custody wallet with Hyperliquid on board and the Wagyu swap between them. Same sixteen screens, same frozen numbers, same soul moment. Ten different answers.

Every file opens straight from disk. Each carries its direction header, a token legend engineering can lift, phone frames at 390×844 and tablet frames at 834×1194 for Home, Swap, and the settling moment.

light-first: 02 · 04 · 08 · 09 dark-first: 01 · 03 · 05 · 06 · 07 · 10
  1. 01

    Urushi dark · lacquer tray tabs · ceremonial

    The wallet as a lacquerware box: deep urushi black holding a warm red light, gold hairlines, a vermillion thread that stitches the flows and closes into a hanko seal when the swap settles. Muse: urushi lacquerware and kaiseki service.

    Zen Old Mincho + Interno blur, glow and sheensoul: the thread becomes a ring
    Open design01.html
  2. 02ledger

    Edge Paint light · right-edge thumb tabs · paper

    A private bank ledger rebound for this decade. Marbled fore-edges on every card, letterpress press states, pages that turn and stamps that land. The book fans open page by page as confirmations land. Muse: Smythson stationery and marbled fore-edge bookbinding.

    Fraunces + Inter + IBM Plex Monono blur, stacked papersoul: the fanning fore-edge
    Open design02.html
  3. 03dial

    Instrument dark · rotary turret nav · detent

    Machined titanium, engraved numbers, controls with real detents. Balances are dual instrument readouts with odometer digit rolls; the nav is a knurled dial you snap between positions. Muse: Leica M bodies and Braun control dials.

    Space Grotesk + IBM Plex Monono blur, chamfers and recessessoul: the aperture ring ticks 4/10 → 10/10
    Open design03.html
  4. 04glass

    Glasshouse light · floating glass dock · silky material

    Money behind glass, drifting over bokeh and dawn water. Privacy is a material property: the balance toggle frosts the pane, and the settling swap clears it from the bottom up, one confirmation of clarity at a time. Muse: SANAA's Glass Pavilion at Toledo.

    Instrument Sansfull translucency systemsoul: the frost line sweeps
    Open design04.html
  5. 05墨流し

    Suminagashi dark · left brush rail · fluid

    Floating ink on dark water. Transparent assets sit in still pools; XMR lives in the moving swirl, which decelerates as confirmations land and stops dead at ten. Muse: suminagashi, the Japanese art of floating ink.

    Shippori Mincho B1 + Zen Kaku Gothic Newthin ink-glass over marblingsoul: ink that settles
    Open design05.html
  6. 06film

    Nocturne dark · scene deck nav · film

    A film about your money, shot at night. Letterboxed scenes, title-card figures, grain in every frame. The swap plays as two scenes cross-dissolving from the transparent world into the candlelit private one. Muse: Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love.

    Cormorant Garamond italic + Archivoscrims and grainsoul: scene one → scene two
    Open design06.html
  7. 07stone

    Basalt dark · carved slab tabs · tectonic

    Money kept in bedrock. Incised text, carved relief, and one thin amber vein of light running through the stone. Each confirmation ignites a segment of the fissure until the seam runs end to end. Muse: Zumthor's Bruder Klaus Field Chapel.

    Fraunces + Inter + IBM Plex Monono blur, carved reliefsoul: the vein ignites
    Open design07.html
  8. 08縁側

    Engawa light · wooden side rail · garden

    A Kyoto machiya as a wallet: shoji light, kiri wood, and the veranda along the edge as the navigation. The settling swap waits behind closed shoji, lattice cells brightening, until the panel slides open onto the garden. Muse: Kyoto machiya townhouses.

    Kiwi Maru + Zen Kaku Gothic Newfrosted shoji, daylight and woodsoul: the shoji slides open
    Open design08.html
  9. 09transit

    Ticket light · transit-line station rail · timetable

    Wayfinding for money. The swap is a journey from the cobalt line to the red line, every quote a perforated ticket. Confirmations punch holes along the stub; at ten the stub tears and the ticket stamps PRIVATE. Muse: Vignelli's subway map and Swiss rail graphics.

    Archivo Expanded + Space Monoflat planes, hard shadowssoul: the punch at the gate
    Open design09.html
  10. 10deep

    Abyss dark · floating depth hub · buoyant

    Privacy as depth. The transparent world floats in the sunlit shallows; Monero lives below the thermocline where ledgers can't follow. The swap is a dive, confirmations pinging like sonar until the marker settles on the dark plain. Muse: deep-sea cinematography.

    Sora + IBM Plex Monolayered translucency over deep watersoul: the descent
    Open design10.html