Bitcoin Design Newsletter #40

Feb 22, 2023

Join us today at 17:00 UTC for Community Call #45 on Twitter Spaces where we’ll discuss everything in this newsletter in lots more detail. Tune in here.
How bitcoin & gaming can come together is a topic of our review call with the Satlantis team on February 23. Satlantis is a custom Minecraft server with lightning integration and game mechanics.
On February 27, we will have a design review call with the Keeper team to discuss their multi-key product and inheritance features.
Did you miss Mo’s talk at FOSDEM about the UX research kit? Here’s the recording.
Catch up with all the community, review, UX, etc calls on YouTube and BitcoinTV.
Contributors to Bitcoin Design are eligible for free tickets to the Bitcoin Miami conference. You can apply here.
We now have an #ordinals channel in the community. Learn more about ordinals here.
Learn how to use the Bitcoin UI Kit for styling in Part 2 of building a bitcoin wallet with SwiftUI. Part 1 gets you up and running with the Bitcoin Development Kit.
The Saving Satoshi team is also building in public, you can learn more about what they are doing here and join #saving-satoshi.
The Wallet Scrutiny team is wrapping up the design of the new wallet page. Here’s a short video overview.

We have a new page about user personas, featuring the why and how, as well as 5 personas based on the research of Patrícia Estevão that can be used by bitcoin projects to inform their product and design decisions.
A definition of Fiat was added to the glossary.
We are working towards creating a PayJoins case study for the guide. If you are familiar with it and would like to help shape the case study. Feel free to jump in here. Also read Dan’s excellent write-up on the Chaincase blog.

Steyn is working on how the PIN works in the Savings wallet for the different wallet recovery scenarios and would like some feedback.
Doc is interested in adding an “App screens” page to the guide. What do you think?
Satoshee is looking for feedback (and help) on the design for a lightning faucet.

SATSx is a lightning hackathon happening in Austin from March 17 to 19
#NostrHackWeek is from March 8 to 15. Bitcoin is already the de facto payment network of Nostr. Join the design track and explore new use cases and UX techniques. Want to help organize?
Advancing Bitcoin is coming up on March 2-3. Johns and Christoph will do a talk and a workshop on design, and a few other community members will attend as well. See you there?
Applications for Summer of Bitcoin are now open.
Listen to Conors interview on the builders of bitcoin podcast.
In #opportunities
- Hello Bitcoin is looking for a new project lead. Come and help with the friendliest community for bitcoin beginners.
- Fedimint is looking for design help with their onboarding experience (here’s a Fedimint primer).
- Galoy would like to hear from experienced mobile engineers to join Galoy and work on Bitcoin Beach Wallet
- Galoy also has a bounty out for enabling NFC payments
- Want to help with branding & design for a bitcoin pop-up space in a Munich mall?
- Bitrefill is looking for a product designer
- Bitcoin Talent is a new recruiting service for bitcoin-focused companies

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