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Bitcoin Design Newsletter #53

Managing multiple wallets, Hub21 launch, call transcripts, and more.

Shout-out to all the builders. We're taking a short newsletter break over the holidays and you can expect the next one on Jan 10 in the brand new year of 2024.

If you're designing a bitcoin application that can manage multiple wallets in parallel, there's a new reference design in the guide that might interest you. It starts with use cases and key handling and dives into diverse user flows.

Bitcoin Design

Multiple wallets

A UX reference design for a multi-key bitcoin wallet designed for both daily spending and storing medium amounts.

It's a quite intricate design. In the review process, the team spent 2 hours reading through the page together. If you'd like to learn by listening to these conversations, here are the recordings. This is the first iteration of this page and we'd love to hear your feedback to improve it. Thank you to all who contributed to this page already.

The WalletScrutiny case study is live. @WalletScrutiny and the community collaborated to redesign their brand and website, which helps everyday bitcoin users verify whether their wallet app is secure and matches the open-source code.

Bitcoin Design

WalletScrutiny

This was a collaboration between WalletScrutiny and the Bitcoin Design Community to help with the redesign of the website.

The case study walks through the discovery, branding, research and design steps of the process as well as which decisions were made and why. Thank you to everyone involved. The work is ongoing and you are welcome to join and chip in.

We have a design review call with nostr:c55e37759af0d7fa8764a69dd3b2f73e093fede265c65d6f136d0dd5fabf69b7 coming up today at 14:00 UTC. More details here:

BOLT.FUN

🫵 Help us building USDp experience! 👩‍🎨 [10101]

In the previous episodes : We published our backend progresses to make USDp divisible and transferable https://bolt.fun

Join us on the various calls happening in the community, we have 3 coming up this week. Check Discord for details.

Bitcoin Design

Bitcoin Design. Open-source design for bitcoin products.

Bitcoin Design is a free open-source community resource that helps designers and developers working on bitcoin-products to create better experience...

The foundation has received a second donation. Thank you so much to Ferreyro, as well as BitBox, for being the first donors, we really appreciate it!

Bitcoin Design Foundation - Open Collective

We organize funding for open-source bitcoin design work.

On the topic of donations, the foundation can also accept bitcoin through Opensats.

OpenSats

Bitcoin Design Community - OpenSats

A free, open-source community resource for designers, developers, and others working on non-custodial bitcoin products.

If you’re more of a cross-chain enthusiast (😀), the foundation also submitted a profile for the latest Gitcoin round, which has about a week to go. Maybe someday Gitcoin can also accept bitcoin, considering the name similarity? https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/424/0x98720dd1925d34a2453ebc1f91c9d48e7e89ec29/0x98720dd1925d34a2453ebc1f91c9d48e7e89ec29-159 And if you missed it, we had a community call last week to introduce the foundation - why it exists, what the goals are, how it is set up, how it relates to the community, and much more. Big thanks again to the first donors.

PR review sessions are also an activity for designers. Here's one that just happened around a new page in the design guide about how applications can design for handling of multiple wallets.

FOSDEM and Creative Freedom Summit are currently open for talk submissions. Both are great open-source conferences full of interesting people worth checking out. If you're working on design on open-source, maybe consider attending and presenting. Creative Freedom Summit is a virtual conference dedicated solely to the features and benefits of Open Source creative tools on January 23 to 25. Proposals are due December 1.

Creative Freedom Summit

Creative Freedom Summit - Hosted by the Fedora Design Team

The conference dedicated to the features and benefits of Open Source creative tools. Be inspired and learn how you can enjoy more creative freedom!

FOSDEM is about free and open-source software, with a specialized track on open design. It's in Brussels, on February 3 and 4. Proposals are due December 8.

FOSDEM 2024 - Home

Open Source Design

Open Source Design

Connecting open source & design! 🎨

In our community call yesterday, we discussed the newly formed Bitcoin Design Foundation. It was founded to ensure the long-term sustainability of the Bitcoin Design Community. We went over the backstory, where we are now, and the curvy path in between. Thank you to everyone who made it to the call. And an especially big shout-out to @BitBox for becoming the first donor. The foundation is in service of the community, let’s use it to do more good design work and move the bitcoin experience forward together. We use Open Collective to host the Foundation. To learn more, donate, get in touch, and more, visit the website here:

Bitcoin Design Foundation - Open Collective

We organize funding for open-source bitcoin design work.

Newsletter #52 just went out with community activity, updates to the design guide, active discussions and project news, and lots of small bits and pieces. Take a peek.

Bitcoin Design Newsletter #52

The Bitcoin Design Foundation, live code resources page, BOLT12...

Designing for bitcoin is a unique challenge. As the internet of money, it is a canvas for creativity and fresh new ways of thinking. Plus, it's permissionless, so you can blaze trails one pixel at a time together with a global community.

Bitcoin Design

Why design for bitcoin

Be on the cutting-edge of technology and open-design by working in the bitcoin ecosystem.

In 2021, Patrícia Estevão gathered some very thorough research on how people use and perceive bitcoin, via live interviews from participants all around the world. Her findings, especially the personas she created, can be very useful for guiding projects. More below... Read the full 14,000 word report. It's absolutely worth it, not only for the findings, but also the process.

Bitcoin UX Research

This research is meant to provide in-depth qualitative knowledge of how people use or perceive Bitcoin. By doing so, we hope that solution creators...

The Bitcoin Design Guide includes a summary for the personas for quick reference by designers and builders.

Bitcoin Design

User personas

How to use bitcoin user personas to build better products, including several bitcoin-specific personas

And if you'd like to put your feet up and watch a video, here's the presentation by Patricia herself. It can be hard to put ourselves in the minds and contexts of the people we design and build for. Luckily we have UX researchers to help us with that.

In yesterdays Bitcoin Design Guide Jam Session, we discussed backup solutions around descriptors, user flows for miniscript-based recovery paths, multi-wallet design considerations, code resources, and an upcoming case study for @WalletScrutiny. Our next session is on November 20. Join us.

GitHub

Bitcoin Design Guide Jam Session #58 · Issue #590 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

UTCTime: 2023-11-20 12:00 UTC Duration: 1h Agenda An open session for anyone interested or working on the design guide to chat and collaborate. Lea...

Happy bitcoin logo day. 13 years ago today, the bitcoin symbol we know and recognize was proposed on the Bitcointalk forum by a user named bitboy. We have more info on this topic in the "Visual language" page in the guide.

Bitcoin Design

Visual language

A short history of the visuals that we associate with bitcoin, from the first symbol to the HODL meme.

What principles do you base your design decisions on? In the Bitcoin Design Community, we identified self-custody, security, inclusion, interoperability, transparency, privacy, and decentralization. Read all about them here:

Bitcoin Design

Design principles

The key principles to follow when designing bitcoin products.

The latest Bitcoin Design newsletter just went out with lots of activity in the community from the last few weeks.

Bitcoin Design Newsletter #51

Custom spending conditions, puppets, code resources, icons, and more.

Shout-outs to @WalletScrutiny, @BOLT🔩FUN, @Saving Satoshi, @Alby, @OpenSecret, @ZEUS. #Nostrasia #herecomesbitcoin

A new version 0.1.10 of the Bitcoin Icons was just released with 11 new icons and 1 fix.

Bitcoin icons

Bitcoin icons

Interface icons for Bitcoin applications, free to use.

Let's look at 6 ways you can use these 125 icons: - Figma plugin - Figma source - SVG & PNG download - React module - Vue module - SVG module The Figma plugin lets you search icons, toggle between outline and filled, and insert them into your design with a click. Very handy. https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1087677534293009133/bitcoin-icons If you want to go directly the source of the icons, grab the Figma community file. Also great if you'd like to contribute. https://www.figma.com/community/file/948545404023677970/bitcoin-icon-set Just want the files directly? Get the icons as SVG and PNG zipped up from the release page on GithHub.

GitHub

Release v0.1.10 · BitcoinDesign/Bitcoin-Icons

11 new icons and 1 fix. See the milestone for details.

Technically inclined? Just install the modules and you're ready to go. https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bitcoin-design/bitcoin-icons-vue https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bitcoin-design/bitcoin-icons-react https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bitcoin-design/bitcoin-icons-svg Missing any icons? Got some suggestions for improvement? Reply here or add an issue on GitHub to request.

GitHub

BitcoinDesign/Bitcoin-Icons

Icons made for Bitcoin applications, free to use. Contribute to BitcoinDesign/Bitcoin-Icons development by creating an account on GitHub.

@ZEUS merged several accessibility improvements today. These can make the difference between someone understanding the interface and being able to manage their bitcoin, or having no idea what is in front of them.

GitHub

Accessibility improvements by sha-265 · Pull Request #1590 · ZeusLN/zeus

Description Relates to issue: #1442 Added accessibility improvements as requested by the folks at the Bitcoin Design Community that have detailed i...

Many wallets still have some pretty easy-to-fix accessibility issues. Often, it is just a matter of adding a label to an icon button, giving feedback on user interaction, or correctly grouping elements. If you'd like to help, see our accessibility hit list where we already gathered specific improvements for several projects.

GitHub

Accessibility fix hit list · Issue #516 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

This is a tracking issue for accessibility issues with open-source, self-custodial bitcoin wallets that we identified and want to help fix. We unea...

Thing is, we're a design community, and we need help from developers to make these changes. We'd love if it you could chip in. Reach out via the issue above, or in the #accessibility channel in our Discord.

Did you know bitcoin wallets can have fallback keys that only become active after some time? How that works, other use cases, and more are explained in the new Custom spending conditions page. Big thanks to @Michael for putting it all together.

Bitcoin Design

Custom spending conditions

An overview about advanced capabilities that enable users to create more flexible bitcoin wallets.

Next on Michael's to-do list is a follow-up page that dives into UX best practices for this functionality. Stay tuned. For now, we'd love to get your feedback on the new page.

Newsletter #50 just went out. Make sure to take a look at the 3 hackathons starting this week. Those are great wide-open spaces to learn, commingle and let your creative juices flow 🥤🌊.

Bitcoin Design Newsletter #50

Complex spending conditions, Hackathons and the Bitcoin Design Foundation.