An AI gateway where you pay per message — no subscriptions, no accounts, and your money stays yours.
Router402 lets people use AI models like Claude and Gemini and pay only for what they use — tiny amounts, per message, with no subscription and no prepaid balance.
I designed the entire experience: the brand, the interface, and the motion. My job was to take something built on complex payment technology and make it feel as simple as any everyday app.
Make the blockchain invisible.
Paying with crypto usually feels intimidating: wallet pop-ups, gas fees, seed phrases, confirmation screens. For Router402 to feel like a real product, all of that had to disappear. The core design challenge was making it feel like sending a message — not making a transaction.
The whole identity grows from one element: a dot. The “O” in the logo, the pixels in the 402 wordmark, the nodes in the interface, and the thousands of particles drifting across the background.
One motif, scaled from a single mark all the way up to a full-screen field — keeping everything feeling like one system.
The product is a calm, focused chat. You switch between AI models from a single dropdown, and everything about payment happens quietly in the background — no wallet pop-ups between messages. The interface stays simple so the technology underneath can be complex.
Motion carries the brand. I built the animations in p5.js: a dot-matrix wordmark that flickers at its edges, a terminal that types itself, and a field of particles that flows like a current. They aren't decoration — they're the identity in motion.