Bitcoin Design Update #34
We're mid-way through the Designathon.
We are in the middle of the Designathon (and Legends of Lightning). Teams are working away on their projects. If you’d still like to join, please do, we’d love to have you. We have a new mystery sponsor (thank you so much), so the grand prize is now 0.25 bitcoin (around $5,000).
Today on Community Call #39 (on Twitter Spaces), we will catch up on what is happening in the Designathon. Join us.
Presentations will be on Sunday, October 23 at 16:00 UTC on Jitsi (call issue).
Check out the Designathon projects 🗣️👂
Feel free to hop into the Slack channels of the projects, they are working flexibly as teams and you can join in and see what they have been up to! There are varying levels of activity in the various projects, and we’re excited to see what everyone will come up with in the next 5 days!
AI Art: This team is creating art using various Art generation tools to create art.
AgriMint: Micro-banking for sub-saharan African populations using the lightning network and hardware wallets.
Flow: The Alby team would like to take on the challenge of adding contact features. This would show a list of people frequently transacted with as well as transaction history.
BTCPay: This team is re-designing the merchant directory page for BTCPay, it’s a project where they have full creative freedom to re-design the page.
Bcharge: Imagine a peer to peer app for offering and tapping into charging points paid with btc. You can also check the local charging points depending on where you travel.
Compactor: Compactor is an app that is used to privately consolidate bitcoin UTXOs using a zero-knowledge sidechain.
Education: This team is passionate about bringing bitcoin to the next generation.
Deconstructing bitcoin and tech: This project wants to help dispel fears and celebrate what makes bitcoin magic. Alexa has already created some designs and documents her work on her website.
Saving Satoshi: Imagine completing different missions traveling through bitcoin history while learning about bitcoin development. Check out team Satoshi.
Gift-Cash: This is an interface to make it easy for companies and individuals to create and send Bitcoin gift cards to their customers and friends.
Inheritance: What happens if the bitcoiner in the family all of a sudden kicks the bucket? This is the design challenge that this team is aiming to solve.
LNDg: This web interface analyzes lnd data and manages your node with automation...all in one dashboard. Node management at your fingertips!
Our keys our coins: Bitcoin community banking and insurance solutions with community custody. Team on Slack.
Podtags: Why not tag your podcasts with notes? This is exactly what podtags does, you can check out their clickable prototype here.
Taro: Team Taro is investigating the future of bitcoin with Taro. Thinking about how we might interact with Taro assets in a few years.
Visualize Cryptography: This team wants to create a visual way of creating and restoring the seed phrase creation process and helping the user to understand what is going on in the background during this process.
Also check out what is happening with the Legends of Lightning tournament. Projects are busily working away, and various calls and Twitter Spaces are happening.
Community & everything else 🧑🤝🧑
The latest UX Research call was a discussion with the Alby team on how to effectively gather and work with user feedback (recording).
For all upcoming calls, subscribe to the calendar.
Keeper is a new multi-sig bitcoin vault with inheritance features.
Over on Fediment a prototype has been created so if you’d like to provide some feedback there it’s most welcome.
The Stratum V2 website is live, congrats to the team that worked on it.
Superlunar put together a video about the first cohort of Qala, a training program for African Bitcoin and Lightning developers.
Read about Alexa’s and Haley’s experiences in the open-source bitcoin world.
WhenTaproot.org is live. Help get this bitcoin technology adopted for lower fees, better privacy and other goodies.
Christoph gave an “Intro the Bitcoin UI Kit” workshop, explaining the background, use cases, what’s included, and showing a hands-on how-to example (recording).
Mo gave a UX Research workshop, helping out team LNDg on deciding on which would be the best UX Research techniques to use early on before jumping into the Design phase.
Daniel did a workshop on how to build a bitcoin wallet on IOS. He used the BDK which he is building and the Wallet UI Kit. Check out what he created in just one hour.
Interesting share about accessible color contrast.
Stephen describes his bitcoin (design) involvement in this podcast episode.
Take a look at the topics of the second Austin Bitcoin Design Club.
Check out The Timechain Codex, a 132-page sci-fi graphic novel using only AI generated art, based on Dhruv Bansal's "Bitcoin Astronomy".
Did you miss Bitcoin Amsterdam? Catch up on YouTube.
Jam, aka JoinMarket Web UI, has a new website.
The Adobe Max conference is happening from Oct 18 to 20. There are many free and online talks to learn about design.
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.