Bitcoin Design Newsletter #84

Apr 15, 2026

We are organizing another design track at the Freedom Tech Summit on June 10, the day before BTC Prague. Join us, and let us know if you’d like to do a talk.
The Between Us project is in full swing, a site documenting real human stories of people using bitcoin and AI built for non-bitcoiners. Calls are happening regularly in the community and it’s being built fully in public. Come join!
Christoph and Erik presented a UX/UI masterclass for the Plan B Academy Business Track, covering how to think about digital product design in the bitcoin ecosystem

Help review the new SeedSigner case study PR in the Bitcoin Design Guide.rawBit is a free, open-source visual tool for building raw Bitcoin transactions from scratch, with 14 interactive lessons. The developer would love UI feedback and is happy to do a live walkthrough session.
Erik is working on new onboarding for Numo and is looking for Android app recommendations with great design for inspiration.
Miro wrote about Bitcoin through a brand lens, what does the brand nobody built and everybody owns actually look like? Read it and share your thoughts.
Mo published a new post on AI workflows for UX designers, including a real example of an agent analysing the UX of bitcoin wallets. She’s also looking to host a series of community calls on how to build your own agents as a UX designer. Who’s interested?
Yashraj is exploring a BCAP extension concept called Consensus Monitor, aimed at helping bitcoin stakeholders understand protocol upgrade proposals and make informed decisions. Feedback welcome on GitHub.
Mo hosted the first ever call on designing user experiences for hardware wallets. Veronika followed up with a wild idea: what if a SeedSigner cover was 3D-printed as interlocking LEGO-style blocks?

Bitcoin++ has several upcoming events in Nevada on April 24+24, Vienna on May 27+28, Kenya on June 17-20, and more.
MIT Bitcoin Expo was last weekend in Boston. Catch up with the live stream recordings here and here.
Bitcoin 2026 will be April 27-29 in Las Vegas.

Brandon Quittem shared his research findings on the personality types of bitcoiners with nearly 1,500 responses. Worth thinking about how this shapes the products we build.
Mo shared thoughts on Jack Dorsey’s vision for Block and Sprout, a Nostr-based layer where humans and AI agents communicate through one shared intelligence layer. She also filed an issue on their GitHub about designing the human signal layer.
Summer of Bitcoin students are rolling into the community! The focus project is a UX research rethink of the Bitcoin Design Guide in the era of AI.
Johns and Lewis launched PXPUSH, a new type of studio leaning into human + robot creative collaboration, delivering work in 24–72 hours.
Sahil Chaturvedi shared his journey into the bitcoin world as a designer, a great read on going all in.
Fedi released a wallet redesign focused on simplified onboarding and a cleaner wallet experience. Do you use it regularly?
Applications for the first designer cohort of the Bitcoin Design Adoption Network are open, focused on transforming African designers to create sovereign, human-centred bitcoin experiences.
Christoph shared Pave Protocol, a concept for standardising last-mile bitcoin to fiat payments, allowing self-custodial bitcoin wallets to pay any phone number, bank account, or crypto address without additional regulatory burden on the wallet.
Tether launched a wallet. Paulo already has thoughts on its (lack of) privacy.

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