Hello, World!

I'm Alex Van de Sande and I'm an interaction designer. I love learning complex stuff translating it into simple terms.

An early member of the Ethereum Foundation, I helped shape the early experience of web3. I'm also an illustrator, and a proud dad.

Things you can't take from me

Small little dents on the universe for which I'm proud for.

  • Helped launch the largest blockchain platform in the world (and the second largest crypto currency)
  • Lead the design of the first Ethereum Web browser, a vision for a fairer more decentralized web
  • Helped launch the ERC20 token standard, the base for most cryptocurrencies since 2016.
  • Helped save a DAO once.
  • Co-founded ENS, the best way to use proper names as identifiers
  • Designed the Featured Article icon for Wikipedia

Things you can take from me

I sometimes make stuff that you can have in your home. Maybe you or the geek in your life might like them.

The "Impossible" Map

Can a sphere be wrapped by only hexagons? It's a simple question that is both trivial and impossible. Asking it lead me to a interesting journey where I delved into maps, travelled the world and met a stand-up mathematician.

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The "Triangle of Everything" wall poster. The whole universe in a single image.

Everything that ever existed can be plotted on this chart. In this single plot that tracks space, size, time, density, temperature and energy, you'll learn about the story of the universe, the evolution of stars, the decay of particles, the search for dark matter, what makes a planet and why hippos can't float.

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What I've been thinking

You can find me in a myriad of places online.

Books featuring the Ethereum Story

  • The Infinite Machine

    A very light and fun book by Camila Russo, from the early days to the ICO manias of 2018. Maybe soon as a movie by Scott Free productions.

  • Out of the Ether

    Matthew Leising tells the story of the DAO heist as a non-linear and exciting thriller worthy of a spy movie.

  • The Cryptopians

    Laura's book is the latest most comprehensive of all three but also the largest. She's also the one who figured out who the DAO Hacker was!