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Your donation will help fund public UX studies and open learning resources, creating a valuable public good for the entire Web3 ecosystem.*\n\n# Our Mission\n\nOpenUX is a collective of experienced UX researchers empowering teams across the entire Web3 space to increase their impact. We equip builders with context, meaning, and insight by contributing expertise and promoting an ecosystem of open-source user research.\n\nWe aim to overcome the siloed use of UX best practices by building in the open and encouraging collaboration and sharing of insights. It\u2019s in our mission that the work we do should serve as a public good for our space, and we do this through:\n\n- Running bespoke studies and releasing them to the public\n- Developing open-access tools, methods, and resources\n- Curating open and accessible research\n\n### We are already actively publishing UX research as a public good to the web3 community\n\nOur organization has deep expertise in web3 and user research. Collectively we\u2019ve contributed to 30+ leading protocols, applications, and DAOs in the space, including MetaMask, Protocol Labs, Solana, NEAR, Stacks, Status, Liquity, Yearn, MakerDAO and many more. \n\nSome of our *public* contributions include: \n\n- A public research study, [onboarding journey for NEAR Protocol](https://www.notion.so/Gitcoin-Grant-Application-GG18-ab390b73c4254caa9ceaabe3cb05d4cc?pvs=21).\n- A longitudinal study on the unique needs of [Filecoin DeFi users](https://medium.com/@openux/uncovering-the-unique-needs-of-filecoin-defi-users-2b16f3585d92) for the DeFi protocol Glif.\n- A study conducted in partnership with MIT\u2019s Digital Currency Initiative Group into the appropriateness of a [CBDC to meet the needs of US Citizens](https://dci.mit.edu/us-user-research-collaborations).\n- [Metaverse early adopter user research](https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000187-7685-d820-a7e7-7e85d1420000) study for Protocol Labs.\n- [DeFi user research report](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4795067/ConsenSys%20Codefi-Defi%20User%20ResearchReport.pdf) for ConsenSys.\n- [Ethereum 2.0 Staking ecosystem](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4795067/Codefi/Ethereum%202.0%20Staking%20Ecosystem%20Report.pdf) report for ConsenSys.\n\n---\n\n# **Why donate to this grant?**\n\nGrant funds will be used to fund the production and sharing of more public UX research & open learning resources. These funds will be held by the OpenUX multisig and allocated to organizational workstreams through voting from our members. Initiatives we\u2019re committed to creating include:\n\n**1. Create an open research and insights repository**\nSince OpenUX\u2019s launch in January 2023, it has always been our intention to create an open UX insights repository that is public and available to all builders in the space. At OpenUX, [we publish the research we conduct](https://medium.com/@openux), and there are other fantastic researchers out there doing the same, but there\u2019s no easy way to mine those insights to find learnings that are applicable to a specific use case or target user, and no single place to discover them.\n        \nWe will build and launch an open UX research repository that solves this problem. It will give builders a jump-start, providing them with reliable findings that they can use for internal decision-making and better product strategy.\n        \n**2. 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