Community 🧑🤝🧑
Join us today at 17:00 UTC for Community Call #43 on Twitter Spaces where we’ll discuss everything in this newsletter in lots more detail.
In the latest Merchant Product Review (recording), we reviewed Tiankii, a merchant platform for El Salvadorians.
Yashraj has been working on the Payjoin design challenge and is looking for feedback. Check out this write-up and flow diagram.
UX Research Call #10 was about “Jobs to be Done”. Watch Jan’s presentation for an intro on this useful framework for identifying why users choose a product.
Want to help contribute to the newsletter or Twitter account? Reach out in #spread-the-word.
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
In the latest jam session (recording) we set up milestone 18 including:
Adding bitcoin personas
New header images
How PINs work in wallets
Spaced repetition reminders for better security
How fiat currencies can work on the lightning network
Info pages for community social media and newsletter
Dark mode does not work well in sunny environments. Do we need guidance around this in the guide?
What is a good way for users to archive old wallets in case those receive more transactions, or address and transaction information is needed for bookkeeping? Discuss
Stratum V2 has been added as a collaboration to the site.
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
Which bitcoin, design or open-source conferences are you interested in or planning to visit this year? Chime in here.
Karnage offered to give feedback to design projects. Reach out here.
Yashraj is working on an article about spaced repetition for the bitcoin design guide. Feel free to comment on his work here.
MT asks how best to publicly collaborate on Figma files. Is there a good solution?
Christoph would like feedback on a proposed new wallet page design for Wallet Scrutiny. Watch the video overview, and leave comments in Figma.
Everything else
Proof of Keys day was on January 3, the day the first block was mined. Have you moved your coins off of third-party custodians already?
The Austin Bitcoin Design Club (ABDC) had a special holiday edition event. Check it out.
Check out round two of Geyser grants, which has a dedicated category for visual art around bitcoin. Applications are now open.
A new version of Padawan wallet will be released soon, based on the design of the students from the Summer of Bitcoin program. View their design presentation.
Lightspark is looking for a Lead Product Designer
21 Towers for a freelance designer with an opportunity for full time
Fedi and Epoch VC are organizing a hackathon with a 2.1 bitcoin bounty. Read all about it here.
Earn 5M sats for creating complementary illustrations for new Galoy Earn lessons. More here.
If you’re looking for work, feel free to post in that channel as well.
Kraken now supports sending to Bech32 addresses.
Saving Satoshi is looking for contributors for development (NextJS) and image generation using the latest AI art tools. Chime in at #saving-satoshi.
Liana is a new bitcoin wallet with some interesting inheritance features.
You can design your own NFC cards and earn sats via plebtag.com.
Bitcoin giving notes project has made a big update as well (video tutorial).
Bluewallet now supports unified QR codes.
For more, visit the Bitcoin Design website and follow on Twitter.
This update is brought to you by Christoph & Mo. We’d love to hear your feedback.