Bitcoin Design Newsletter #54
Covenants, first design huddle, time-based recovery, Bitcoin UI kit updates and more.
Community 🧑🤝🧑
There’s an article in Bitcoin Magazine about the Bitcoin Design Foundation.
There’s interest in exploring covenants from a design perspective. Join our intro call on Jan 19 to discuss the basics of covenants.
Want to design together hands-on? Join our design huddle call on Friday.
We had a design review call (recording) with Keeper about their new home screen design.
The next design review is with Resolvr on Jan 18.
Would you be interested in transcripts of the calls we organize?
There’s work going on to revise the contribute page to make it easier to get started in the community. How would you improve this?
Bitcoin design guide & co 🗺️
A new page about time-based recovery is live, courtesy of Michael. This can be an extremely helpful feature to recover bitcoin in catastrophic situations. We also have a learning call about this topic on Jan 26.
The wallet page in the glossary has a new header image, thanks to Jeff. The resources page also got a new one.
Bitcoin Icons are now available on Iconify. Designers and developers can now use their website, API and Sketch/Figma plugins to easily work with the icons.
The Bitcoin UI Kit website got an update and now showcases the new theming system and a short video on how to work with it using the new Figma plugin.
BDG Wallet is currently working towards a TestFlight version.
What should we add to the guide in 2024? Share your ideas here. We also have 34 open issues, if you’d like to contribute.
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
Saunter is refining the Nostr Wallet Connect logo. What do you think?
How would you implement lightning payments to WooCommerce?
Would you like to help accessibility testing? Phoenix wallet would love more feedback.
We’re creating a write up on all the research done on Bitcoin Core App, read through and comment.
Everything else
The Legends of Lightning Vol 2 winners were announced.
Tanishka shared a case study for her work on uMlando wallet during Summer of Bitcoin.
There’s a long list of all of the Bitcoin conferences happening in 2024.
OpenSats announced further Bitcoin and Nostr grants, HRF also announced Bitcoin grants, and Vaneck announced bitcoin development funding, as well as The Draper Foundation. These options are also open for designers and other contributors, not just developers.
The Bitcoin Core App team is investigating designing for assumeUTXO (faster node syncing via snapshots).
Offline.Cash offers self-custodial physical bitcoin banknotes.
Decoding Satoshi Nakamoto is a student book project about the identity of Satoshi.
The Bitcoin Dev Project launched, a resource for developers to get started in the bitcoin ecosystem.
Read about Bitcoin's Role In Human Rights And Global Empowerment.
Keeper posted a short video demo on how to set up a multi-key wallet in their app.
The Kumuly team researched “How clingy are Bitcoiners with their beloved BTC?”
In #opportunities:
Pleblab announced their Top Builder event. Apply until January 13.
Swan is looking for a Senior director in Product Managament.
Also check out Bitcoiner Jobs and Stacker News.
For more, visit the Bitcoin Design website and follow us.
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