Bitcoin Design Update #48
Summer of Bitcoin, Bitcoin UI kit bounty, Bitcoin Core App, Fedimint and more.
Community 🧑🤝🧑
The Summer of Bitcoin students will present their projects (uMlando wallet design & accessibility for lightning) today at 14:00 UTC in Community Call #53 on Jitsi. Join us.
The Human Rights Foundation announced a big bounty challenge for 10 UX improvements to bitcoin. Anyone is invited to participate. One challenge is for porting the Bitcoin UI Kit to the open-source design tool Penpot. Join the #bitcoin-ui-kit-and-icons channel to contribute.
The Bolt.Fun AI4All hackathon is a wrap. Here are the winners.
The Fedimint group is continuing their biweekly design calls (notes, recordings).
Plebpoet is organizing a Bitcoin Design table at TABConf and is looking for projects who would like to get design feedback.
The Bitcoin Core App design process is moving forward with a series of milestones towards a version 2 that includes full wallet functionality.
The Saving Satoshi team has moved over to Discord (#saving-satoshi). They are also looking for user feedback.
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
sgmoore reviewed and improved the writing on the Activity and Requesting bitcoin pages.
Mo’s page about how to contribute case studies was added. Do you have a design case study you think would be a good fit for the guide?
Two PRs are looking for reviews
The conversation continues around adding eCash related content and reference designs?
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
FOSS Design Critiques is coming to TABConf in September. Submit a project to be presented at the Builder Day table and receive feedback from conference participants.
WorkIt is looking for UX feedback on their app that combines health & fitness & bitcoin.
Help test and review sha-256’s accessibility fixes on the Zeus app.
View-only wallet? Watched wallet? Keystores? Another discussion around framing and naming features.
How can UIs help prevent sneaky dust attacks?
Want to help shape the direction of 2 UX research sprints? Check out the research plan for Bitcoin Core here and JAM here.
Satyam is looking for feedback about removing the conventional bottom navbar.
Michael is working on complex spending conditions and is open to feedback.
Two members of the community are working on creating a case study for Wallet Scrutiny, you can chime in here.
Everything else
Bitshala is a new education initiative led by Indian bitcoiners to provide guidance and resources for new developers (Discord)
Satyam has shared his interview findings from speaking with a blind bitcoiner
Learn about Miniscript from these resources
Bolt.fun is kicking off a new hackathon Nostrasia
Some interesting thoughts on challenges, solutions and a possible outlook for lightning
LDK has a new case study up about Mutiny wallet
Zeus wallet would like some help checking out the accessibility fixes on IOS
Spirals quarterly newsletter is out. Always an interesting read
In #opportunities …
Lightspark is looking for a senior product designer
Damus is looking for an IOS dev
Fedi is looking for a Software engineer
Block has a few open design roles as well
For more, visit the Bitcoin Design website and follow us.
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