Bitcoin Design Newsletter #63
Stickers, chocolates, plushies, open design, and more.
Community 🧑🤝🧑
Watch the recording of the call about Gen Z and its relationship with bitcoin. Join the follow-up call on August 15.
Help create conference stickers and swag (conversation, issue).
The Summer of Bitcoin students had their mid-term evaluations are now in the second half of the program.
Michael made bitcoin chocolates.
My First Bitcoin is looking for design contributors.
Help create a guide for designers to find their way into open-source.
The Saving Satoshi team is working away on the last two chapters, which deal with multi-key logic and lightning (channel).
The Bitcoin Core App team is working on the receive and activity screen designs (channel).
Voltage launched a new product for hosted Bitcoin Core nodes and is working with the Bitcoin Core App team on an open-source component for the block clock component.
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
Erik is looking for feedback on the Overview and Cashu pages of the new section about ecash for the guide (conversation, PR).
Michael is continuing his work on the inheritance wallet reference design with the PRs for chapters two and three.
Blitz Wallet based its onboarding experience on the guide. A great example of how it can speed up design and development (conversation).
The discussion around editorial policy for new proposals is ongoing.
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
Yashraj mocked up a design for test transactions using the replace-by-fee mechanism. What do you think?
omg21btc is daydreaming about a game simulation of energy production using real physics, related to bitcoin mining. What do you think?
Everything else
Screens and videos on the UX of buying sats without internet access on a feature phone in Malawi.
Get your Here comes bitcoin plushie.
The Satoshi Nakamoto Institute released a new website design.
BitBox is bringing silent payments to their hardware wallets.
Proton released a wallet product, and a guide to bitcoin for new users. Watch the tutorial by BTC Sessions.
The Keeper team spoke with Sahil about designing user-friendly wallets.
Coinbits wrote about their personas in Bitcoin Magazine.
Sanya posted about her experience with Summer of Bitcoin.
Twelve.Cash is a way to get a human readable identifier for your bitcoin payment information.
In a similar vein, satsto.me lets you resolve a human readable identifier.
Bitcoin Tokyo will be September 21 - 22.
The Nakamoto Project released a report about adoption and sentiment around bitcoin in the United States.
Christoph wrote about image generation in Saving Satoshi.
In #opportunities…
Maelstrom launched a bitcoin grant program
Relay is looking for a UX Copywriter
Coinkite is looking for a Senior Designer
Fedi is looking for a UX Researcher
Cash App is looking for a Principal Product Designer
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