Community 🧑🤝🧑
Join us today at 14:00 UTC for Community Call #49 on Twitter Spaces where we’ll discuss accessibility day and Bitcoin Design presence at BTC Prague. Tune in here.
Global Accessibility Awareness Day is tomorrow (Thursday, May 18) and we’d like to invite you to take a moment out of your busy day and spend it on the topic of (bitcoin) accessibility. Join our kick-off session at 7:00 UTC for a practical intro and how-to.
BTC Prague is 3 weeks away, and our preparations are continuing. We are still looking for volunteers for the expo booth and hack-day talks. Reach out.
The Fedimint team is continuing their series of design calls. Listen in (and contribute if you’d like).
The Summer of Bitcoin students have kicked off their projects. Check out the UMlando wallet here and Lightning wallet for people with visual disabilities.
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
Mo would like some feedback on this write up on contributing case studies to the guide.
Two new headers images (one, two) got merged. Thank you Pragya. Jakey is experimenting with AI generated visuals for another one.
A revision of the glossary entry to Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions went live.
The projects page got a content refresh.
Discussion continues around a larger update to the onchain reference designs, which may include
Key rotation (via FROST)
Managing multiple wallets
Migration and archival of old wallets
Inheritance UX
Social recovery
Progressive security
Work is starting on a page for mobile inter-app linking. Do you have good references on how apps currently solve this?
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
Blockstream is planning to conduct some research to better understand the novice user journey of bitcoiners. They are wondering if there are any research studies that were done in this regard?
Steyn is working on a write up on how to provide guidance on how to purchase bitcoin, feel free to contribute here.
Explore how to handle edge scenarios for send fees, feel free to comment here.
Everything else 🌟
Michael Rihani did a keynote at Microstrategy world where he spoke about the bitcoin and lightning network, with a brief shout-out to Bitcoin Design at the end.
The BOB Builders Residency program announced their first cohort. Congratulations.
Christoph is building a UX card deck to have a casual and fun way of introducing people to the community.
Wondering what’s the latest on ordinals? Find some links and join the discussion here.
In #opportunities …
OpenSats received $10 million in donations to fund open-source bitcoin & nostr projects. Apply here.
Trammell ventures has 2 design jobs listed, at Unchained Capital and Kraken.
Fold is looking for a product designer
Block is looking for a product designer to work on mining software
Also keep an eye on the Stacker News job board and Bitcoiner Jobs.
BitKey shared interesting product design considerations on self-custody and seed phrases on their blog.
BitKit (not to be confused with BitKey) improved their onboarding flow.
BTC Session has a new video tutorial showcasing Blink wallet.
Bitcoin Miami is this week. If you’re attending, enjoy. If not, many great talks are being live streamed and recorded.
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.