Bitcoin Design Update #22
This is a big one! Version 2 of the design guide is ready!
Congratulations to everyone involved with the Bitcoin Design Guide. 7 months ago, you set out to add Lightning-related content to all 50+ pages, and now it’s done.
Lightning makes it possible to scale bitcoin to billions of users, which is right in line with the community tagline of “Design bitcoin for everyone”. The technology has quickly progressed, and as it is maturing, the design guide will be a helpful resource for product builders across the ecosystem.
Join us today on the community call to celebrate and chat about what’s new in the guide. We look forward to seeing you!
Now on to our usual update.
Community 🧑🤝🧑
Community call #27 is happening today (check your time zone) and join us to celebrate on the Twitter Space!
In the Design Guide Jam Session #20, we planned how to wrap V2 of the guide. Which we did! Mission accomplished. In the next jam session, we’ll plan out what to do next.
In the next call for the Wallet Design Improvement Project (Feb 14), we will start a design sprint for Blixt. In the previous call, we talked to Hampus, the creator of the project and learned about his motivations and goals.
Johns and Christoph presented at FOSDEM 2022 and shared their learnings around supporting open design in Bitcoin. A recording is available on BitcoinTV and YouTube.
Pavlenex, Johns, and Conor will represent the community at the Lightning Hackday in Istanbul on Feb 25-27. Feel free to join.
If you’re in NY on Feb 23, stop by at BitDevs NYC to hear Patricia and Stephen talk about bitcoin design.
A new #sustainability channel has been created in order to visualise some bitcoin mining and sustainability concepts.
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
The final tweaks for V2 were wrapping up the Daily spending case study and Payment privacy pages, doing a minor restructuring of the Payments section, and various smaller refinements.
We lowercased 99.9% of references to bitcoin here.
Check out Liams animation of the guide cover.
Stephen added handy modal functionality for images, to zoom in on details more easily.
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
The usability of Lightning addresses is hotly debated. Chime in here.
Hampus has an idea for structuring Lighting invoices to improve display in wallets. What do you think? (Slack).
Geyser is live, a platform for crowdfunding with bitcoin, and is looking for feedback (Slack).
Everything else 🍟
Conor & Christoph did a Twitch live stream and introduced the Bitcoin UI Kit.
Zeus v0.6.0-rc2 is out now! This release includes UI/UX enhancements including an updated lock screen and bug fixes. Check out the release notes.
The Sensei beta is live, a lightning node implementation focused on making Bitcoin accessible to the entire world. Shout-out to Liam and Gene for helping with the website and animations.
New #opportunities were posted for Ledn, Relai, and Strike, as well as a grant-program for Bitcoin design work by Stacks.
For more, visit the Bitcoin Design website and follow on Twitter.
This update is brought to you by Conor, Johns, and Christoph. We’d love to hear your feedback.