Bitcoin Design Newsletter #56
Human-readable addresses, satoshi symbols, covenants, and more…
Community 🧑🤝🧑
We had learning calls about silent payments, covenants (our second one), and FROST.
The UX research team had calls about ongoing work on the UX Research Toolkit, and a local initiative for merchant adoption via Etta Wallet.
We had a discussion with Synonym about their proposal for a new way to format bitcoin and satoshi units (more at satsymbol.org). What do you think?
In the last community call, we talked about planning another designathon, accessibility day, BTC Prague and other initiatives. Join us today at 15:00 UTC for more organizational chit-chat.
We installed ZapBot on Discord. Type “/help” to set it up to send and receive lightning payments right within the chat (it uses Nostr Wallet Connect).
We’re continuing our Friday design huddles where we hang out and work on designs together (or individually).
Help review the transcript for the learning call about silent payments (and earn sats). Several other calls are already reviewed. Big thanks to Bitcoin Transcripts.
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
The Stabilizing bitcoin value page is live. It describes methods for keeping your USD/EUR/etc value the same without selling your bitcoin.
Michael added an interactive prototype to the reference design for time-based recovery.
He is also working on a family inheritance reference design. How have you set up your bitcoin inheritance? We talked about it in the latest jam session.
We have several larger UX explorations and discussions going on at the moment that may find their way into the guide. You’re welcome to contribute.
How can we make it easier to get familiar and contribute to Bitcoin Design? Help revise the “Contribute” page.
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
Mo put together a project and research plan for BTC Hub Africa. Share your feedback.
Lana would appreciate design feedback on her onboarding design for bolt.fun. She’s also recruiting testers.
Alby launched a website about Nostr Wallet Connect (helps connect lightning wallets and apps).
Why is there no bitcoin emoji? Discuss.
How can Ecash mints prove their trustworthiness?
Everything else
Thetimileyin shared his redesign of the Swan Bitcoin landing page.
Keith did a thorough review of Payjoins on hardware signers.
FOSS Backstage is coming up, a conference about how open-source works.
Design_r posted various design challenges on Stacker News. Great for training your design sensitivities.
Jason created a piggy bank UI for LNBits wallets.
Erik is continuing his work on design improvements to the send flow in Enuts (issue).
BTCPay released another case study about merchant adoption.
In #opportunities:
Coinkite is looking for a web designer.
Swan is looking for product and graphic designers (one, two, three).
For more, visit the Bitcoin Design website and follow us.
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