Bitcoin Design Newsletter #46

Jul 05, 2023

Join us today at 14:00 UTC for Community Call #51 on Twitter Spaces where we’ll go over this very newsletter in detail. Tune in here.
Check out the Payjoin session tomorrow for an intro to how it works, use cases, user flows, the Payjoin Dev Kit. and more.
We also have a call with the Liana team tomorrow about designing for miniscript and complex spending conditions.

The UX research group had two calls related to the UX research kit (recording) and a web design project with the European Bitcoiners (kick-off and jam session).
The Bitcoin Core App group is also having regular meetings, here are the last two (one, two). They are currently planning out the next milestones.
The Fedimint group are working on the designs for the Lightning gateway UI, and co-created the Information architecture together here.
We now have a lightning tipping bot in Discord. Tip someone by typing “/tip”.
The Saving Satoshi group is working away on chapter 3 and planning chapter 4, if you’d like to jump in you can join them here.

Michael and Christoph are researching UX approaches for complex spending conditions. See the document linked in the issue for progress (and join the Liana call).
Mo is wrapping up work on the guidelines page for contributing case studies to the guide.
The UX Research toolkit is now live. You can check it out here.
There’s a new PR ready for review for the wallet sector page issue (preview).
Christoph is working on a plug-in to simplify maintenance and usage of the UI Kit. How do you use the kit? How can it be improved?
Daniel published a first draft of the Bitcoin UI kit for Flutter, you can check it out here.

The group exploring Wallet API Standards is looking for feedback
Michael is wondering how we could use Nostr badges more in the community? A reputation system? Fun participation trophies? What do you think?
Satyam from Summer of bitcoin is continuously sharing his work on a lightning wallet for people with visual disabilities. Take a look.
Tanishka, also from Summer on Bitcoin, is working on uMlando wallet. You can check out her latest blog post and wireframe designs here and follow along in Discord.
Jakub shared various design variations for feedback. The community is a great way to get quick responses.
Paulo is looking for feedback on his research into Pix, the Brazilian instant payment system, and its relationship to bitcoin.
Global Accessibility Awareness Day was almost two months ago. Let us know if you have made progress on this topic.

The Bolt.Fun AI 4 All hackathon started this week and goes until the end of July. Join workshops, learn about AI & bitcoin, and hack away at fun (or serious) projects.
Yashraj spoke about privacy and design via Payjoin at the inaugural Canadian Bitcoin Conference.
The Austin Bitcoin Design Club got together last week. Here’s a link to the things they chatted about.
In #opportunities …
- The Nostr client Coracle is looking for icon design help
- There’s a 150K stats bounty for a logo for a Reddit-like Nostr app
- Someone is looking for a bitcoin designer for a small logo project
- Rigly, a hashrate delivery marketplace, is looking for a bitcoin designer
- Swan is looking for a senior product designer
- Amboss is looking for a fulltime designer
- Want to help maintain, research and promote Lightning Landscape?
- Citadel OS is looking for a design contributor for about 5 hours per week
- On Bitcoiner Jobs, LN Capital, Foundation, JAN3, and Starfort Technologies are looking for designers
- On Stacker News, Umbrel is looking for a design engineer
Have you heard of Lightning prisms?
Get your tickets for Baltic Honeybadger, Bitcoin Amsterdam, BTC23, and other conferences in time. Which ones will you attend?

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