Bitcoin Design Newsletter #77

5 years of Bitcoin Design (!), Design Week, UX education programs, and lots more.

Community 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

• The Bitcoin Design Community has been around for 5 years and we are putting together a report to celebrate milestones and everyone’s contributions. As usual, it’s done in public, and you’re welcome to chime in. 

• We had a call with the Fediment web wallet team, see the call recording here.

• The community and Bitcoin Presidio are making good progress organizing a Design Week in September.

• We’ve got a new AI channel in the Bitcoin Design Community, feel free to chat about all things AI there. 

• The Bitcoin Design Foundation is looking to clarify the grant application process. Give feedback on these work-in-progress documents.

Bitcoin design guide 🗺️

• The contacts page now more explicitly mentions silent payment addresses.  

• Content guidelines now include a paragraph about inclusion of new protocols with little adoption.

• How can the guide be used directly or indirectly via AI? Help experiment and find out.

• An explainer for how recovery phrases are constructed has been added to the glossary. 

• Tracking on the website will remain and the issue has been closed. 

Seeking feedback 🗣️👂

• Mo is putting together a report about the UX needs of activists. Feel free to drop in comments on the report here. 

• Jsonbits posted a survey to understand accessibility needs around bitcoin wallets. 

• SalmaChan would like feedback on HongBao, a site for gifting bitcoin with customized paper wallets.

• Veronika is looking for input on a redesign of Brr (custom ecash notes for print).

• Pratik is looking for feedback on ZapTracker, a dashboard for Zaps ( micropayments via Nostr & lightning).

• Pav is curious about animating the Bitty mascot (from Here comes bitcoin). Check out the discussion.

Education 🍎

• The Bitcoin Design Community is in the process of creating an education program for UX designers, chime in on the discussion here.

• Christoph is going to move forward with iterations to the Open Design Guide.

• PenPot has just released an online course about UI design.

Conferences 📅

• Baltic Honey Badger is coming up on August 9th and 10th, in Riga.

• Bitcoin Amsterdam is happening again from November 13th to 14th.

• Tab Conf, a more technical conference, is taking place in October in Atlanta, Georgia.

Opportunities 💡

• There’s a new freelancing website where you can be paid in bitcoin. 

• Bitcoin grants lets you apply to multiple grant organizations at once. 

Everything else 😀

• The winners of Skibidi cash, a bounty to bring together bitcoin builders around brainrot meme culture, has been announced.

• Geyser organized a NWC hackathon. Congratulations to the winners.

• Erik wrote an update on his recent contributions. Right now he is working on designing a Cashu wallet for Bitchat, improving multi-nut payments on cashu.me, working with Sushant on Sovran design improvements, working with Veronika on a redesign of Cashu Brr, and later will be taking a turn at vibe coding some improvements to the Fedimint Web Wallet.

• Mat updated his one-pager about BIP-177, the proposal to redenominate bitcoin.

• Nandini wrote about her experience contributing to Saving Satoshi via Summer of Bitcoin.

• BTCMap shared their update for June.

• Tristan wrote about his journey designing a bitcoin wallet.

• Bitcoin UI is a new React library with UI components.

• Bitcoin transcripts got an update. It is a searchable archive of transcripts of bitcoin meetups, conferences, podcasts, and more.

• Check out the Spiral newsletter, which elegantly wraps complex technical bitcoin topics with a soft blanket of humour.

• Speaking of newsletters, Mo, Erik, and Christoph keep posting proof-of-work updates about their open-source contributions.

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