Community 🧑🤝🧑
Community Call #41 is today on Twitter Spaces and we’ll be use this very newsletter to discuss everything going on the community. Come and chat.
BOLT 12 & Async payments: The community jumped on a call to learn about these two technologies, what they mean for UX, and how we can potentially promote adoption. More in #bolt12-async-ux.
The next Learning bitcoin and design session will be about PayJoins. Dan Gould will talk to us about this on-chain privacy technique.
Another UX Research call is coming up where we will review the UX Research toolkit and find ways to improve it.
There’s been an explosion of bitcoin art in our #art channel. Have you played with AI creation tools (check out Lexica and DiffusionBee)?
Taproot was activated a little over a year ago. To help adoption, check out whentaproot.org.
We had 2 more calls (one, two) for the Wallet Scrutiny collaboration. Come and help with branding, web design, and information design.
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
The first case study went live! It summarizes the design sprint around improving onboarding of Blixt wallet. Take a look.
Case studies are meant to summarize research and design work on real-world bitcoin applications. Reach out if you have work that fits this idea that we can potentially add.
Stephen is organizing a series of merchant product review sessions. This is part of the research for the upcoming merchant section in the guide. The first call is today and covers the Bitcoin Beach wallet.
Join our biweekly jam sessions to keep up with the progress on the guide. Here’s a summary of the most recent one.
Want to help get the guide ready for localization to other languages? Chip in.
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
Which hardware wallet do you recommend? Jakub is wondering.
Andrew would like feedback on the new Galoy cash register.
European Bitcoiners are looking for help improving their website.
Everything else
Johns was on the Kevin Rooke show talking about Bolt.Fun and accelerating bitcoin adoption. Tune in.
The Legends of Lightning tournament is in the final phase. Teams submitted their pitches, and a shortlist was created for the finalists for each track. See them for the Global Adoption and Building for Africa tracks.
Pav has had the idea to capture user feedback on bitcoin/LN payments to understand the biggest challenges. Him and Mo are cooking up something as we speak and the domain name bitcoinpayments.failed might be the new home to capture this feedback.
Jakub created a really nice user journey map for Alby.
Bob and Lindsay made bitcoin-based giving notes for gifting bitcoin more easily.
Mo, Stephen and Christoph write weekly updates on their open design work.
Paco travels around the world to host bitcoin meetups. 22 countries so far.
Volume 2 of the Spiral Book of Bitcoin Mythology was released. It’s all about security… beware of the hedgefundhog!
Interesting research on “who develops bitcoin”. Makes you think… “who designs bitcoin”?
Rob is looking for UI/UX contractors
plebeian.market for a UX & frontend coder
Alby wants help with an announcement video
Courtny and Rocky are seasoned designers looking for new crews
Wolf is a new lightning accelerator
Fortris has an opening for a digital product designer
And Bitrefill is hiring
For more, visit the Bitcoin Design website and follow on Twitter.
This update is brought to you by Christoph, Mo and Johns. We’d love to hear your feedback.