Bitcoin Design Newsletter #70
Designathon 2, grant updates, South America UX bootcamp, and more.
Community 🧑🤝🧑
The first-ever Bitcoin Design Podcast is live! Check out the first episode.
Michael Haase will continue his contributions to the design of the Bitcoin Core App with support from the Human Rights Foundation.
Speaking of, Bitcoin Core App designers are currently working on larger updates to the design documentation, especially around send functionality.
The Bitcoin Design Foundation posted about their grants to the Bitshala Design Fellowship and Yashraj, and a donation by Spiral.
Participants of the Africa UX Bootcamp had a call (recording), discussing their next steps of moving their UX research findings into practical design solutions.
After Africa, the UX Bootcamp is heading to South America! Know more here.
We will organize another design track at the BTC Prague dev/hack/day in June. Come help plan it in the #conferences channel.
Early planning for a second Designathon has begun. Take a look at the highlights from the first one and join the conversation in the #conferences channel if you’re interested.
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
Review the proposed addition of watch-only wallets to the common use cases page.
How might we transition bitcoiners to post-quantum secure cryptography? Tackle this issue.
How can we more clearly distinguish “1” (one) and “l” (lowercase l) in address display? Discuss.
The PR for human-readable addresses is getting finalized. Help with a review.
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
Help review proposed changes to chapters 8, 9, 10, and 12 of the Open Design Guide.
OLAS, a new nostr app alternative for instagram, seeks feedback on its logo proposal.
Give feedback to refined logo ideas for Listr (for list creation and management on nostr).
There’s a discussion around Stacker.News cashu UX.
Wallet updates 👜
Nunchuk now has Taproot Multisig. Taproot makes multi-key transactions indistinguishable from single-key on-chain transactions.
Bull Bitcoin Wallet supports asynchronous Payjoins (BIP-77) — no server required!
Sovran Beta just launched. Share feedback on the onboarding flow and check their initial review. Kudos to Erik and Sushant!
Education 🍎
A talk about empowering activists with bitcoin education.
Bitcoin Games for kids, teens, entire families.
A deep dive into the Bitcoin issuance equation.
Satsie's Pocket Guide to Payjoin.
Conferences 📅
Feb 1-2 | FOSDEM has a track on Open Source Design.
Febr 8-10 | Chiang Mai, Thailand SATS’N’FACTS is a technical bitcoin conference and Freedom Art Exhibition.
Feb 19-22 | Florianopolis, Brasil - bitcoin++ is hacking at the beach.
Opportunities 💡
Pavlenex is looking for help redesigning the Stratum V2 website for multiple target groups. Big plus if you also have experience with copywriting. Details here.
Coinbeast is looking for a Video Editor (Remote).
Fedi is looking for a full-time Product Designer (UI/UX).
Lightning.News is looking for a volunteer writer.
Cashu Wallet is looking for open source contributions from UI/UX designers and copywriters.
Everything else 😀
Lee Gordon, of Fold, is the latest guest on the Studio Twentyone Podcast.
Fight for the Future released a report on the privacy properties of bitcoin (and a few other cryptocurrencies).
“The Identity of Satoshi” is a new short comic.
Here Comes Bitcoin stickers are now available on Stacker.News.
BipPopArt designed Bitcoin and Nostr stickers for the Signal app.
Mike wrote an article on Cognitive Biases and User Psychotypes in Interface Design.
Get stimulated by bitcoin in Stimulation Clicker.
Njump released a nostr onboarding tool.
SEEDCARD is a technical concept for physical bitcoin key cards.
For more, visit the Bitcoin Design website and follow us.
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