Bitcoin Design Update #24
Hacking on lightning, stickers, QR codes, and more...
Community 🧑🤝🧑
Community Call #29 is today, again via Twitter Spaces. We’ll chat about whether users need to know about the difference between the bitcoin and Lightning networks.
Right before the community call today is a New Members Mixer. Come, say hi, ask questions and chat.
The Shock the Web hackathon is happening right now, follow along on Twitter, YouTube and Slack.
In the second call (recording) with the Galoy team, we discussed their designs for managing both bitcoin and US dollar accounts in a single application.
The weekly Learning Bitcoin and Design call covered SPV, Neutrino, & Electrum and payment request formats (recording).
In Design Guide Jam Session #22 (recording) we discussed the ongoing work on the guide, which you can keep up with via the roadmap.
In the latest Bitcoin Design Sprint session (recording), the group reviewed 3 UX concepts for revising the onboarding flow of the Blixt wallet. Join #wallet-improvement.
The site for the Unified QRs for Bitcoin initiative is live. Excellent work by Stephen and the group (join the #unified-qr-code channel). Let’s create smoother payment experiences.
Some really good information is being shared in the #sustainability channel.
Want to help design a new site for the Stratum V2 mining protocol? Join #stratum.
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
The Requesting bitcoin page got a bigger update (summary of changes).
There’s a big task around revising how readers experience the guide. Your feedback is highly valued. For an overview of currently proposed changes, see this comment and milestone 15.
Big shoutout to sgmoore for fixing a ton of grammar and spelling fixes in the guide.
The Lightning refinements keep coming with guidance on expiration times for invoices, 0-amount invoices, single QR codes, offline states, channel reserves, and more. See the milestone.
Looking to make a contribution? See the roadmap for ideas and how to contribute.
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
What do you think of moonshot goals? Discuss.
The JoinMarket Web UI team is looking to hear from users, and potential users, about their view and experience with the application. See their survey.
Everything else
There are #opportunities with Synonym, Mash, Spiral, Alby, Bull Bitcoin, and Fortris.
Interested in creating a sticker set for the design community? Join the conversation on Slack here.
How about some freebie 3D assets?
Stephen & Conor will be live streaming on Twitch tomorrow at 18:30 UTC about adding BIP21 support for wallets. Join them here
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.