Maxine Zhou About

The Motorverse

Redesigning a Web3 racing app for web and mobile

Motorverse is an ecosystem built around digital vehicle ownership and community, where players own a digital car and drive it across many games and experiences.

Overview

Overview

My Role

UX/UI Designer

Timeline

April 2024 – February 2025

My Core Deliverables

Research · Wireframes · Prototypes · UI design · Developer handoff documentation

The Project

The goal was to transform Motorverse's main website and app to align with its new motorsport and gaming brand identity, while building anticipation for the minting event of its first Lamborghini digital car, the Revuelto. The Showroom and Garage pages were designed specifically to carry that launch.

The result: over 1,000 cars minted in 26 minutes.

The Process

Started from UI style exploration

We started with a thorough review of the client's expectations and requirements, then audited the existing Motorverse platform and explored several UI directions for sign-off before committing to a full UI set.

Grid of early Motorverse UI style explorations in different colour treatments

Design

With a clear picture of what users and the business needed, I moved into redesigning the existing product. The aim was to align the platform with the new brand identity, improve how information was structured and surfaced, translate Web3 terminology so that non-crypto-native users could follow it, and deliver a responsive experience across desktop, tablet and mobile.

Motorverse mobile screens showing green, yellow and pink accent colours applied across plate customisation UI

Multiple accent colours, applied as a system

Brand colours were used as the accent across all utility components, with primary buttons kept visually consistent between web and mobile so that the same action always looks the same, wherever it appears.

Gradients as a brand signature

Gradients were used throughout the pages to create a sense of energy and movement, giving Motorverse a distinct visual presence among other Web3 sites.

Two Motorverse plate-selection and rewards screens shown with multicolour gradient backgrounds

Designing momentum into the launch

Countdown timers, leaderboards and supporting UI elements were used to build urgency around the mint and drive engagement in the run-up to launch.

Motorverse mint page showing a countdown timer, rewards panel and the Lamborghini Revuelto prize car
Five Motorverse mobile screens: the rewards page, the Lambo Revv Hunt landing page, the egg hunt leaderboard, the racing plate selector and a plate detail view