Bitcoin Design Newsletter #42
Accessibility, conferences, Payjoin case study and updates to the savings wallet case study.
Community 🧑🤝🧑
Join us today at 17:00 UTC for Community Call #47. Nostr Nests worked out great last time, so we’ll try that again. Tune in here.
We are still slowly migrating to Discord as it’s more suited towards communities and does not make our discussion history disappear. Have you joined yet?
We’re organizing an event for Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 18. Learn about accessibility issues in bitcoin and get hands-on fixing some.
Curious about Nostr? Watch Stephen’s intro in the latest Learning Bitcoin and Design call (recording).
In the latest design review, we looked at Jam - a web UI for JoinMarket (recording).
The UX research toolkit is very much still being built in public. The group had a call last week. At the moment content is being worked on for various sections. You can check out the project management on Github as well as the work in progress here.
Bitcoin Design will have a booth at BTC Prague and is also helping with the hack day. Planning is still in early phases and you’re invited to join. More on the issue.
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
A new case study around UX practices for implementing payjoins went live. Shout-out to Yashraj and Dan Gould for this in-depth page.
Nitya opened pull request #1,000, what a nice milestone!
The savings wallet case study received updates on recovery scenarios (here) and PIN reminders (here and here).
We have a proposal to organize upcoming milestones around general site improvements and improving the savings wallet reference design. Chime in with your feedback.
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
Mo is looking for feedback on a write up for the UX research toolkit about visual communication. Feel free to comment here, and on this draft on Building in Public.
Whirlpool is doing some UX research and would love your feedback.
Dan launched payjoin.org and is looking for feedback on how to improve the effort of getting broader adoption for payjoins (and generally better privacy onchain).
Everything else 🌟
The Bitcoin Product Community has launched. Check it out if you are interested in contributing to bitcoin projects in any way.
Projects and winners for both the Bolt.Fun Nostr hackathon and the PlabLab SATSx hackathon were announced.
Andy created some art mashing up Metallica album covers with Nostr. Check it out.
Speaking of art, have you seen the Skull of Satoshi?
Christoph has been working away on filing accessibility issues on BlueWallet.
The MIT Bitcoin Expo is coming up on April 22-23.
The Canadian bitcoin conference is coming up as well from the 17-18th June.
Bitcoin Beach Wallet gets a new name. Introducing Blink.
Are you a React Dev and would like to contribute to accessibility?
Damus is looking for a design engineer.
Are you looking to contribute to Bitcoin Core in the role of a PM. feel free to reach out here, and tune in to the Twitter Spaces discussion tomorrow.
BO฿ Space is kicking off their builders residency program for FOSS devs, builders, and designers. You can apply until April 30
Mash is looking for help creating 10+ animations related to a variety of bitcoin memes.
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.