Bitcoin Design Newsletter #62

Jul 10, 2024

The Bitcoin Design Foundation released its quarterly report. Read about the five new grants, donations and other updates.
What are common UX challenges for lightning wallets? Watch the call recording and find out.
We have a call about Gen Z and their relationship to money, finance and bitcoin coming up.
Should we create an educational program to better support designers finding their ways into bitcoin & open-source? There is interest, and we set up an issue to track this initiative.
The Bitcoin Design Youtube channel now has over 1000 subscribers and over 300 videos. Speaking of numbers, this newsletter reaches 820 subscribers.
My First Bitcoin is looking for design contributors.

The first pages of the new Inheritance Wallet reference design by Michael are live. Take a look and help review the remaining pages here, here, and here.
The user personas created by Coinbits can now be found in the guide.
The units and symbols page received a minor update around the use of thin spaces. It continues to be one of the most shared pages in the guide.
There is an editorial question around whether to include very forward-looking proposals like BIP353 for DNS Payment Instructions in the guide.

Yashraj shared his presentation on silent payments from the BTC Prague dev/hack/day and is looking for more input.
Christoph shared design ideas for displaying various payment request types on receive screens in lightning wallets. He also posted an issue on Phoenix Wallet to propose a revision of their current design.
Steve is interested in a comparison of various approaches to bitcoin inheritance for different types of users. Chip in.
“How to present research done to a team in a helpful way?” A question Mo and Manuel discussed..
Michael is looking for feedback on a design for test transactions for Bitcoin Core App.
Jakub is doing tests on one flow from a Bitcoin Core App redesign. Feel free to share this post with people who have never used an onchain wallet.
Erik is looking for feedback on a redesign of the Cashu website.

The Bitcoin Nashville conference (July 25-27) organizers offer free tickets to open-source project contributors, including the Bitcoin Design Community and Bitcoin Core App.
The Bitcoin Dev Project released their “Good First Issues” tracker. Quickly find things to work on.
Erik shared a concept around updating broken connections to ecash mints.
A thread on the spectrum of usability and security.
The Raspiblitz Web UI got a design refresh.
Jakub received a grant from the Bitcoin Layers project for his design contributions.
Phoenix Wallet released an update with BOLT12 support, a contact list, and transaction notes.
The Bitcoin Core App team wrapped up wallet creation and selection designs and is working on receive and activity screens. Join in Discord.
Bitshala started a cohort on Mastering Bitcoin.
A detailed case study of the fluid UX of Family Wallet.
A podcast about the relevance of bitcoin and privacy for freedom fighters.
Sahil launched a new monthly newsletter focused on bitcoin design.
Bitcoin++, focusing on ecash, is coming up in October.
The Africa Bitcoin Conference published its first blog post about the importance of bitcoin.
The Human Rights Foundation publishes a Financial Freedom report.
Satlantis is looking for a Head of Product Design.

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