- Role
- UX/UI Designer, Full-Stack Developer
- Team
- Cynthia Langarica
- Responsibilities
- Full website redesign: UX/UI design, front-end development, information architecture, design system
- Technologies
- WordPress, Elementor, Figma, CSS
A new face for digital financial freedom.
The Zcash Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity building financial privacy infrastructure for the public good. A globally recognized organization in the blockchain space, they needed a complete website redesign that could communicate their mission clearly, serve a technical audience, and scale across a large number of page types.
The Zcash Foundation is a globally recognized nonprofit at the intersection of cryptography, blockchain, and financial privacy. Their mission is clear and important. What wasn't was their website, a digital presence that needed to reflect the credibility and depth of the organization behind it.
The challenge of scale
Designing for an organization like Zcash Foundation isn't just a visual challenge, but an information architecture challenge. The site needed to serve multiple audiences simultaneously: developers, researchers, community members, donors, and the general public. Each with different needs, different levels of technical knowledge, and different reasons for being there.
Design system first
A project of this scale doesn't work without a coherent design system underneath it. Typography, color, spacing, components; everything defined before a single page gets built. That consistency is what makes a large site feel intentional rather than assembled.
Page types delivered
Homepage, about, team, events hub, Zcon conference pages, Dev Summit pages, Zcon Voices, Arborist Calls, blog, grants, governance, and more. Each page type designed to serve its specific audience while remaining visually coherent with the whole.
What was delivered
A complete website redesign for a globally recognized blockchain nonprofit, across a large number of page types, with a consistent visual language throughout. The kind of project that demands both broad thinking and precise execution.
Reflection
Working at this scale taught me that design decisions compound. Every choice made early — a type scale, a spacing system, a component pattern — either creates consistency or chaos across every page that follows. The investment in getting those foundations right is never wasted.
