Bitcoin Design Newsletter #65
Summer of Bitcoin presentations, 100 Bitcoin Core App calls, The Grand Timeline...
Community 🧑🤝🧑
Meet this year’s Summer of Bitcoin design student graduates as they present their projects in our community call on October 10.
We’ve had two sessions of the Open Design Guide reading club. Join us every Thursday at 12:00 UTC.
The Bitcoin Core App project has its 100th design call today at 13:00 UTC.
Teemupleb posted a nice thread about the community.
We are tentatively planning to organize a Designathon in February/March, and are looking for organizers to help make it a reality.
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
We had reading sessions on the Ecash and Silent Payments PR, and Eric and Yashraj are steadily making improvements.
Help review chapters two, three and four of the inheritance wallet reference design.
Selfie Records extends BIP 353 (on which we have a draft pull request on) to include identity and other data types.
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
We had another Ecash PR review session. Reviews on the Design Best Practices are welcome and you can do so here.
Igor posted about this “The Grand Timeline” project - a massive visual history of crypto & bitcoin, feedback is welcome here.
Saunter is wondering whether to include fees in the amount shown in wallet transaction lists.
What will UX design look like in the future when designing Bitcoin Apps?
Wallet updates
Dana Wallet is a mobile wallet focused on Silent Payments (screenshots). Also see this guide about getting started with silent payments.
LiveWallet is a tool for keeping your UTXO set organized and cost-efficient. See how it works.
The Border Wallets team shared visuals of Deeksha’s redesign of their website for her Summer of Bitcoin project.
Blue Wallet is removing “Advanced mode” from their app, since users had a hard time finding the features in there.
10101 Finance is shutting down and the team will explore other avenues for pushing bitcoin tech forward.
Want to feel stressed using a bitcoin wallet? Here you go.
Education and art
Eriol wrote an article on how to start with design in your open source project.
The “Here comes bitcoin” sticker set keeps expanding. Bitcoin was also spotted in Tokyo.
Check out this new online store for bitcoin-themed vintage western movie posters (which started as a Stacker News design challenge).
Conferences 📅
Foss-backstage is happening in Germany again in March next year.
The first Open Boards Summit is happening on the 24th of October.
Find more conferences at bconf.org.
Opportunities 💡
OpenSats (post) and HRF (post) announced their latest grants (applause). If you are looking for a project to contribute to, this could be a starting point.
Peach Bitcoin is looking for a product designer.
Relay is looking for a UX copywriter.
For more, visit the Bitcoin Design website and follow us.
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