Bitcoin Design Update #29

Jul 6, 2022

Community 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Community Call #34 is today on Twitter Spaces and we’ll chat about the guide survey and share what everyone is working on.
In the first Bitcoin Crit session ever, Bosch reviewed the VoltPay experience (recording, Figma). Tomorrow he will review Oshi.
In Learning bitcoin & design #10, we went over BOLT 12 Offers, (recording).
UX research call #1 was an in-depth discussion about user personas as well as other research methods to understand users needs (recording).
The Design Sprint team had another session about the onboarding flow of Blixt (recording).
What’s new with Stratum V2 design? Read Pav’s update and join #stratum.
Join Business Models on Slack to chat about business models and monetization frameworks to support bitcoin FOSS projects.
We will have panel on Open Design and a presentation on Supporting open design in bitcoin at COSCUP on July 30.
Join the Bench32 adoption channel to motivate the ecosystem to support sending to bech32m taproot addresses.

Bitcoin design guide 🗺️

Join our kick-off call at 13:00 UTC for the merchant section in the guide.
In Design Guide Jam Session #28 (recording), we discussed milestones #13 and #16, as well as Daniel’s BDG Daily wallet project.
A suggestion for including guidelines for Command Line Interfaces design in the guide.
Help us with the revision of the first-use page of the daily spending wallet.
We would love your input as to how we can make the bitcoin design guide better, here’s the survey we’ve created to do just that.
Want to help out? Start on the contribute page.

Seeking feedback 🗣️👂

What’s the best way to display on-chain, lightning local and lightning remote balances to users?
Are 4-digit PINs for encrypted cloud data at a security problem?
What is the biggest barrier to exchanges adopting lightning? Discuss.

Everything else

Liam launched some new bitcoin apparel.
How about this AR-enabled bitcoin bear whale?
Shock the Web 2 was great. Here’s how it went down.
Mo and Christoph tested Phoenix wallet for accessibility.
A great post by Stephen about designing for Taproot.
Adopting Bitcoin had a call about community banking on bitcoin.
In #opportunities, Blockstream is looking for a Senior Product Designer, Geyser grants helps creatives bootstrap their initiatives, and if you want to design bitcoin swag and earn sats, chat with Liam.
There’s an effort to unify Bitcoin and Lighting Layer Specifications for the web.
Pavel wrote a great article about Creating a roadmap for an open source project on Github.
Conferences: there are at least four later this year: BTC Azores, TabConf, Adopting Bitcoin as well as the Bitcoin conference in Amsterdam.

For more, visit the Bitcoin Design website and follow on Twitter.

This update is brought to you by Mo, Johns, and Christoph. We’d love to hear your feedback.

Bitcoin Design Community Update