Bitcoin Design Newsletter #69
Boot camps, Fellowships, Ecash, Inheritance, Saving Satoshi, and more.
Community 🧑🤝🧑
The Bitcoin Core App team is working on a features page and sending in the design docs, while development is ongoing on receiving, snapshots, wallet selection, and other areas.
The Open Design Guide reading club has wrapped up. Help shape the next steps.
Saving Satoshi has officially launched, and was mentioned in the Bitcoin OpTech and Microstrategy newsletters. Come help save Satoshi and learn about bitcoin coding.
The Africa Bitcoin UX Bootcamp has wrapped up. Students learnt UX design principles from the Bitcoin Design Guide and then got hands on usability testing 5 African applications at ABC conference.
Apply for the upcoming Bitcoin UX Bootcamp in South America.
The Bitshala design fellowship has kicked off. Learn more about the 4 fellows.
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
The Inheritance Wallet reference design is now complete, with the last two pages about Making changes and Succession going live. Slow clap to Michael for completing this huge amount of work.
The Ecash section is also live, covering the basics of how it works, design best practices, and unique aspects of Cashu and Fedimint. Give another slow clap to Erik for all his efforts on his opus.
Tracking (background info) has been live now for almost three weeks. You can see the public dashboard here. Is the data informative?
Saving Satoshi’s design journey is now documented in the Bitcoin Design Guide. A massive shoutout to the people who made the project come to life.
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
Andreas is looking for feedback on the send flow of his wallet project.
What do you think about Erik’s new design for opencash.dev?
Jon_Hodl and Design_r looking for feedback and collab for SN' Brand Book & Media Kit
Wallet updates 👜
Foundation released Passport Prime.
Learn how to set up a collaborative 2-3 wallet in Keeper in this short video.
Cashu.me got a big UI update.
The Nutstash lightning and ecash wallet rebuilt its UI and integrated Nostr Wallet Connect and DMs.
Conferences 📅
Watch talk recordings from the Africa Bitcoin Conference.
The Sats’n’facts unconference will happen February 10-12, 2025 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Mo also spoke about UX design at ABC conference and was on 2 panel discussions about ABC conference about working in Bitcoin as a woman as well as on another panel about applying for grants.
Find more conferences on bconf.org.
FOSS Backstage is happening in Berlin next year where Christoph will present about the Open Design Guide.
Opportunities 💡
UX/UI Designer at Migodi.
Unknown Certainty looking for Video Editors, Motion Artists, Designers & Copywriters.
Bitcredit is looking for a Usability Tester.
Everything else 😀
Listen to this conversation with Art and Jonas about building FOSS bitcoin products.
Bounmy created an open-source tool for creating Red Envelopes for Chinese New years (code). Note that it’s best to run this on your own computer. If you trust a website with private keys, only use low amounts.
Penpot hosted a workshop. Watch the recording to learn the basics of this open-source design tool.
An invite by Alby to contribute to their suite of open-source projects.
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This update is brought to you by Christoph & Mo. We’d love to hear your feedback.
