Bitcoin Design Newsletter #53

Managing multiple wallets, Hub21 launch, call transcripts, and more.

Community 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

• We had a community call to discuss the newly formed Bitcoin Design Foundation, why it exists, what the goals are, how it’s set up and how it relates to the community. Curious? Ask questions and share feedback in the #foundation channel. Big thanks to the first donors.

• We had two calls with the 10101 Finance team - an intro and a deep-dive focused on swapping to and from USD-P, a synthetic Stablecoin.

• The Legends of Lightning hackathon is wrapping up soon. Demo day is on December 17.

• The Bitcoin Core App crew had design and UX research calls.

• Would you find call transcripts useful? Interested in helping set them up via btctranscripts.com? Chime in.

• We’re taking a short newsletter break over the holidays. The next one will go out on January 10 (in 5 weeks rather than in 3 weeks).

Bitcoin design guide 🗺️

• The multi-wallets reference design is now live. It’s a deep-dive into designing an application that lets users manage multiple wallets, including use cases, key handling and various user flows. We had two reading sessions, which you can view here and here.

• The WalletScrutiny case study is also live. It walks through the collaborative rebranding and website redesign process on this important project around wallet security.

• There’s an ideas document for 2024 the Bitcoin Design Guide, feel free to comment.

• What do output descriptors actually look like? Now you can find an example in the glossary entry. 

• Links to the Bitcoin design Foundation were added to the projects and contribute pages.

• How can we make the contribute page more welcoming? Uty suggests a new approach using a checklist and more approachable language. 

• The manual backup page got a new header image, and Jeff suggested one for the wallet page.

• Catch up with the last two jam sessions (one, two) where we discuss the ongoing work.

• Interested in helping wrap up this issue for explaining how to map fiat currency on the lightning network? Let us know.

Seeking feedback 🗣️👂

• What do you think about the interactive transaction builder in the ARTSNL wallet?

• There was a design suggestion made to the homepage of WalletScrutiny in the metrics area, feel free to comment on the design file.

• The 2024 roadmap for the Bitcoin UI Kit is being planned, feel free to chime in here and on the project board. A custom plugin is now available, and the Flutter package was updated.

• Geyser Fund now has its own channel in the Discord and would like to know what the community would like to see as they work in public (they recently went open-source).

• Saving Satoshi published chapter 5, about message signing, and is busy with chapter 6 about constructing transactions. Testing and feedback is highly appreciated.

• Triceratopsishness or bullishness?

Everything else 

• Hub21 launched, a non-profit bitcoin research and education center, and co-working space, in Belgrade.

• Earn sats for reviewing meeting, call and presentation transcripts via BTCTranscripts. 

• 10101 launched a public beta and are working on the design based on the feedback from the community.

• If you’re in Miami, swing by the Bitcoin Grove events, like their design meetups.

• The Alby team has a new user feedback board.

• Omg21btc shared some bitcoin plugins for WordPress.

• Bitkey shared a 22-page document outlining their recovery design.

• BitBox wrote an article about recovery with Miniscript and Liana.

• Practice good security and do not lose your bitcoin like this unlucky person.

• The first Sovereign Engineering Cohort was announced.

• The Creative Freedom Summit is a virtual conference about open-source design tools and processes on January 23-25.

• In #opportunities:

  • Geyser is looking for a UX designer.

  • SHAmory is looking for a kids book illustrator.

  • Foundation is looking for a digital product designer.

  • A bitcoin-only backed startup is looking for a UX designer and a seo specialist. 

  • Swan bitcoin is looking for a content marketing manager.

  For more, visit the Bitcoin Design website and follow us.

  This update is brought to you by Christoph & Mo. We’d love to hear your feedback and any news we should include in future editions.