Community 🧑🤝🧑
Join us today at 17:00 UTC for Community Call #46. This time we’ll use Nostr Nests (like Twitter Spaces but with all the Nostr magic). We’ll chat about this newsletter and the ongoing Nostr hackathon. Tune in here.
There is a proposal for the Bitcoin Design Community to move over to Discord. Join the discussion. This is a big change and we welcome your input.
Another UX research call coming up tomorrow. We will get in alignment around the sections in phase 2, which different people will work on.
The BOLT12 team set up weekly jam sessions (recording of #3) to define UX practices and a website for promoting adoption. Join the calls and the team Discord.
Applications for the Summer of Bitcoin 2023 program are now open. Browse available projects to contribute to (last year, designers participated in Padawan).
The Nostr hackathon is on and there’s still plenty of time to participate to design experiences where bitcoin and social media intersect (also, Nostrica is from March 19-21 and here’s a Nostr 101 video).
Learn how to wrangle design systems in Figma in the next Learning Bitcoin & Design call.
Watch the video from the Keeper design review call, a great discussion around bundling single-key and multi-key wallets into a single application.
Christoph and Johns were over at advancing Bitcoin in London and spoke about design processes and gave a Bitcoin UI Kit workshop.
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
The Bitcoin Dev Kit team reached out about a design project for visually representing complex miniscript structures (like when you have multiple spending conditions that have to be met before you can transact, some examples). More details here and the conversation.
The PayJoin case study is coming along nicely.
What are best design practices for users to purchase bitcoin in wallet apps? Discussion.
There are two open PRs around PINs. Chime in with your feedback.
We have 57 open issues in the design guide repo. If you’d like to contribute, there might be something waiting just for you in there.
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
How do we link UX Research to the Product Development process? Feel free to help us think through this process and comment here.
Have you worked with handling network fees from the UI/UX perspective? Sid would appreciate some feedback here.
Henrik would like feedback on the Torq workflow for automating lightning node operations.
How do you create a research plan and build a research repository for your project?
What type of lightning user are you?
Everything else 🌟
Andy is working on a campaign that likens the Orange Alternative movement in Poland to the rise of Bitcoiners.
A few Tweets around the UX of Jade & Nunchuk, Specter, and Hodl Hodl, and the new public Umbrel App Store. And Hexa is now Tribe.
A new version of the Bitcoin UI Kit was released.
LDK’s new roadmap is out and they are looking for contributors.
In #opportunities
Keyan is looking for a designer to help imagine what Stacker News would look like if it was based on Nostr.
Bitcoin Park is hosting a Product & Design Summit and invites artists from all around the world to showcase their work related to #bitcoin.
Bitcoin Ekasi is looking for a new logo.
Bridge 2 Bitcoin may want design support, creating pamphlets for UK-based merchants.
TBD is looking for a design lead.
Padawan Wallet is looking for some volunteer design help with designing some diagrams for the tutorials.
Also see the Stacker News job board and Bitcoiner Jobs.
For more, visit the Bitcoin Design website and follow on Twitter.
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