Vault yield calculator
APY alone doesn't tell a user what they'll actually earn. I designed a calculator where users enter an amount, pick a period, and see the projected return broken down by all fees ending in the final balance they'll actually hold.
Unstake with four exit options
The unstake modal shows the four withdrawal periods on one scale, with the resulting fee and final payout visible inline so the trade-off between speed and cost is clear before the user commits.
Entry point – explaining the mechanic before the action
The page opens with "Earn rewards by staking LOCUS tokens" and four icons explaining how staking works: rewards in stLOCUS, revenue share, unstake anytime, voting rights. The explanation lives at the top so users understand what they're committing to before they act.
Working with the product manager and lead designer, I designed the staking section as a series of connected flows with a single goal: make every decision a user makes feel transparent.
Solution
Outcome
The staking section became part of the core product funnel. According to the team, the transparent fee visualization and the calculator helped users commit to staking instead of bouncing at the unstake step.
Problem
Staking on Locus required users to navigate complex mechanic multiple fee tiers, two parallel staking systems, and rewards that landed in different tokens than they started with. Most users didn't understand what they were committing to, couldn't see how their decisions affected actual returns, and hesitated to stake at all.
Context
Locus had two parallel staking systems that needed to live in one section. LOCUS staking locking the platform's own token in exchange for stLOCUS, which earns rewards, shares platform revenue, and grants voting rights. Vaults Staking staking the tokens users got after depositing into a Locus vault (xETH, xUSD, xDCI) to earn additional yield on top of the vault's base returns.
Overview
Locus is a decentralized asset management platform built around tokenized, yield-bearing vaults. Users deposit ETH or USDC into a pre-made vault and receive a vault token their share of a diversified basket of DeFi strategies that the protocol rebalances automatically.
DeFi asset management platform with yield-bearing indexes
Locus