Bitcoin Design Newsletter #59
Join us on Accessibility Day on May 16!
Community 🧑🤝🧑
Accessibility Awareness Day is coming up quickly on May 16. Join us for our kick-off workshop for an intro to bitcoin accessibility. Let’s make a difference by improving accessibility that day, even if it’s in a small way. All contributions matter.
Summer of Bitcoin students just submitted their proposals, which will now be reviewed (see the projects).
The first speakers for the BTC Prague dev/hack/day design track on June 12 are confirmed. We’ll have a highly interactive creative space to discuss Ecash and Nostr Wallet Connect UX, open design collaboration, ensuring product quality, silent payments, and more. Join us. You’re also welcome to propose a talk or workshop in the #conferences channel.
Stephen and Brandon are working on the website for promoting BOLT12 adoption.
The Bitcoin Design Foundation posted its first quarterly update.
A group is helping Bitcoin Layers improve their design and security review process. Catch up in the #bitcoin-layers channel (and the kickoff call).
The Bitcoin Core App team created a research plan and is user testing the new wallet creation flow design.
We had several calls in the community, including the Design Guide Jam Session, Bitcoin Core App and a UX research call. You’re always welcome to join.
Bitcoin design guide & co 🗺️
Erik is investigating Ecash UX as part of this work on eNuts, and for the guide. He just completed two interviews with developers to learn about UX problems they perceive.
Chris is working on tutorial videos for the Bitcoin UI Kit. Share your feedback on the first part.
He also created a cool demo of how to use AI to generate new themes for the UI Kit.
Michael is continuing to iterate the inheritance wallet reference design.
More feedback is also coming into the human-readable addresses PR and is being addressed.
The Bitcoin Core App case study PR is now also ready for review.
Help review these technical tweaks and usability fixes on the guide.
We are interviewing people who have used the Bitcoin Design Guide to learn about what works and how we can improve it.
Play with the TestFlight version of BDG Wallet.
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
Chris and Christoph explored a more visual brand concept for Mutiny Wallet. Would you use it?
Phoenix and Wasabi Wallets have withdrawn from the US. Samourai Wallet developers got arrested. What do you think of these developments?
Skyler is wondering if his mock-up is a good way to teach newcomers about SATS?
What’s the best way to show and manage multiple assets in a wallet? Erik is experimenting with eNuts.
Everything else
Blue Wallet merged an improvement to QR code accessibility.
Nunchuk introduced Finney, their onchain wallet for family custody.
Interesting thread about the reasons for running a bitcoin node.
Penpot 2.0 is out with major improvements.
Cake Wallet cleverly combines Twitter bios and silent payments for quick sends.
Why should bitcoin not ossify? Steve Lee chatted about this on the Stephen Livera podcast.
Coinbase rolled out support for the lightning network.
Brink is looking for help with a website redesign
Stratum V2 is looking for front-end development contributions
Stripe is looking for a product designer
Check out Plebwork, Stacker News Jobs and Bitcoiner Jobs for more
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