BTC Prague
For the first time in the 3-year history of the Bitcoin Design Community, we were involved in a bitcoin conference in a more formal way. We helped organize a design lounge at hackday, featuring comfy sofas and mood lighting, along with talks on inheritance, research, AI art and more. We rounded up hackday with a thrilling design duel.
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It lead to some incredible new features.
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Then we had a booth (shout-out to Spiral for sponsoring) during the 3 day expo where we showcased the good work done in the community and had endless conversations around bitcoin & design. We saw many familiar faces from the community, thanks all for stopping by (reach out if you'd like the Nostr badges (naddr1qvzqqqr48ypzprpfkvsapu7xzdpcst4yjc37s3m3dyxdq4nwgzus7z896dpnd24qqq3ky6t5vdhkjm3dv3jhx6t8dckkyarr94c8yct8w4jj6v3sxgej6etcwphslnmk9f, naddr1qvzqqqr48ypzprpfkvsapu7xzdpcst4yjc37s3m3dyxdq4nwgzus7z896dpnd24qqq4ky6t5vdhkjm3dv3jhx6t8dckkyarr94c8yct8w4jj6v3sxgej6er9wckksctrdvkkgcten5enfm)). Here are a few snapshots.
Community 🧑🤝🧑
- Join us today at 14:00 UTC for Community Call #50 on Twitter Spaces where we'll share our experience at BTC Prague. Tune in here.
- We had two design review calls:
- The Wallet Scrutiny redesign is close to a soft-launch - big improvements, with lots more polish to come based on feedback. Recordings of the latest calls are hereand here.
- Accessibility awareness day was a great success. We kicked off the day with acalland spent the rest of the day tackling accessibility issues. Some accessibility issues we looked at were for BTCPay and the Bitcoin design guide. Thanks to all participating projects, including Wallet of Satoshi, Peach, Bolt.Fun, Alby, Damus, and Zeus.
- The UX Research crew had another call as well where they chatted about the live version of the kit.
Bitcoin design guide 🗺️
- Projects like BDG Wallet and Etta Wallet closely build on the guide and there is a strong interest in closer collaboration. We'll investigate how to make this happen in the next few weeks. Join our jam session on Monday to chime in. In the same vein, we'll kick off the larger savings wallet revision.
- Remember the survey we did on the bitcoin design guide? Findings are still relevant, and while we closed the issue, you can always find it in the contributesection of the guide.
- Christoph has created a first draft for wallet selection UI in mobile lighting apps, add your feedback here.
- Big thanks to Jakey for this first contribution, a cool new header image for the design files resource page.
Seeking feedback 🗣️👂
- The Fedimint group has come up with a lightning gateway user persona. Also tune in to their weekly design calls via the Fedimint Discord.
- Stephen is seeking feedback on the display and formatting of millisats in a UI for lightning node operators.
- What is your preferred workflow for handing over design to engineering or product management? Discuss.
- The UX Research toolkit has its first iteration live, we'd love some feedback.
- Citadel is seeking feedback on a new bitcoin node dashboard design. twitter.com/pippellia/status/1662037623064469504
- The Bitcoin Core App project has tagged milestone 1, focused on running a node, and is looking for feedback.
- Saving Satoshi is wrapping up Chapter 2 of their learning experience around bitcoin coding and is also looking for feedback.
Everything else
- The Bitcoin Product Community launched a new initiative, the Opportunity Board for FOSS projects. twitter.com/bitcoin_product/status/1668383382361743361?s=20
- Daniel published a first version of the Bitcoin UI Kit for Flutter.
- Anipy has developed a Bitcoin Icons Flutter Package. (demo).
- QR codes can be colorful, see how highly visual ones can be generated using StableDiffusion. Also, learn how QR codes are constructed here.
- A first-hand experience of struggles using self-custodial lighting wallets. How can this be improved?
- Fist-bump to pay with the bitcoin ring. twitter.com/bitcoin_ring/status/1663940033114521600
- Keeper released a Whirlpool feature for their iOS app. twitter.com/bitcoinKeeper_/status/1662482436289069058?s=20
- In #opportunities ...
- Geyser is looking to promote bitcoin artists with their next round of grants. twitter.com/geyserfund/status/1666539598296633355
- BTCMap would like some help creating a preview image for their website
- Zeus has a 1M sat bounty for accessibility fixes around their React Native App. twitter.com/ZeusLN/status/1663920657065803777?s=20
- Cici is looking for a web designer
- On Bitcoiner Jobs, JAN3, Fold, and Starfort Technologies are looking for designers
- On Stacker News, Block and Fold are looking for product designers
- PenPot and Figma have conferences coming up. Good ways to brush up with design tools, best practices and new features.
- Webstudio is an open-source alternative to Webflow. Have you tried it out?
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