A new website for Provably that shows how verifiable databases work instead of explaining them. I took it from idea to design to code.
View the previewProvably makes databases where every answer comes with a proof. That is hard to picture. A proof is invisible, and words like zero knowledge mean little unless you already know them.
So the site had one job: show what goes wrong without a proof, and what changes with one, without asking anyone to understand the maths.
Every illustration on the page is the product doing something real. A wallet checks its balance, an exchange proves its reserves, a payment prints a receipt. Each one plays on its own, and every number that matters is shown being checked.
The illustrations are built in code, not exported as images, so they stay sharp, move properly and rearrange for phones.
The problem section moves one beat at a time. The painting stays pinned while the text moves on, and the scene changes with each beat: a balance arrives, a bad actor throws forged numbers at your app, a payout goes out on the wrong one, and then the proof rejects it.
By the time the word verified turns into a badge, you have seen exactly why it matters.
Proofs are abstract, so I borrowed objects people already trust to vouch for things: a passport with stamps, a printed receipt, a floppy disk for size, a departure board for speed.
They turn an invisible idea into something you can look at, and they make a technical page fun to scroll.
Every scene sits on a public domain landscape painting from The Met or the Art Institute of Chicago. It makes a crypto product feel calm and trustworthy, and very different from the usual dark neon.
Each painting carries a small provenance stamp that links to where it came from. A site about proving where data comes from proves where its own pictures come from.
I took this from the first idea through to the design and the build. It is built in Next.js with Tailwind and Motion, so the animation was tuned in the browser at real speed rather than described in a prototype.