The first @bitshala Design Fellowship has kicked off, complementing the existing program for developers. This collaboration with Bitcoin Design allows for 4 fellows to contribute as designers for 6 months to specific projects. Stay tuned for details, for now, we’d just like to say a big thank you to everyone involved in making this happen.

⚽ It’s kicked off! Today the first ever Bitcoin UX Bootcamp right in Kenya. Today 10 African UX designers sat together and had a journey of learning and collaboration 🌟 We learnt about UX Design Principles specific to Bitcoin, UX research, Bitcoin Development philosophy. Next to that students got hands on doing desk research and each group is assigned to an African Bitcoin wallet which they will be conducting usability testing on. 🍃 Thank you to Femi for the presentation about Bitcoin Development philosophy and to CK for always showing up and connecting with the students. Thank you Marcel for the support in operations and logistics. Also to Mark for the help with setting up the usability testing structure which the students will be doing on 5 African built wallets. A big thank you to HRF for supporting this initiative. Many resources from the Bitcoin Design Community have been used in the bootcamp such as the Bitcoin Design Guide, Open Design Guide & UX Research toolkit. 🌟Last but not least to the students, without you this would not be possible. Super inspiring to see all of these people making Africa shine.

Another new page in the Bitcoin Design Guide by @Michael 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. His epic inheritance wallet reference design now covers making changes to existing wallet setups. If it looks complicated, take a look at the overview page first.

Bitcoin Design

Making changes

This page describes how key replacement works and how the wallet configuration can be changed.

👏🏽 Let us give a round of applause to these 10 ladies and gentleman. These 10 talented UX designers will join us in the first ever Bitcoin UX Bootcamp in Africa. ⚽ Kicking off in just 3 days they will put their skills to the test as they up skill their knowledge and learn UX design for Bitcoin. 🌟 Meet Wandia, Oladimeji, Olayinka, Elizabeth, Afolabi, Flora, Loïc, Brenda, Williams and Adeyemi 🍃 We believe in all of you and looking forward to seeing you all shine. Lets go Africa!

A brand-new ecash section just went live in the Bitcoin Design Guide, courtesy of @erik. It covers all the basics, and dives into Casu & Fedimint, as well as best practices for design. Take a look.

Bitcoin Design

Ecash

An overview of bitcoin-backed ecash, protocols, and design best practices.

This week, the first ever Bitcoin UX Bootcamp is happening in Africa. 🔥🔥🔥 10 talented UX designers from Africa will learn & get hands on by doing UX research on wallets. We will then bring this data about these user experiences back to the ecosystem. Builders of these wallets can then improve them and make data driven iterations to the designs to improve the user experience. We’re also thrilled to announce that the next edition already has a confirmed location: Brazil! 🇧🇷 To all UX designers in South America eager to learn and connect with the Bitcoin industry, stay tuned, we’ll be sharing more details in the coming days!

🪴 Today at 12:00 UTC we will watch live as the next generation of Bitcoin Designers onboard themselves into an exciting learning path leading up to the first ever Bitcoin UX Bootcamp 2024. 📺 10 talents African UX designers will be learning in public 🏘️ It's all happening in the Bitcoin Design Community 👉🏽 They will be reading through the Bitcoin Design Guide - Getting started section and learning the foundational knowledge to support them as UX designers.

Learn about how Silent Payments work in this new page in the Bitcoin Design Guide, courtesy of @yashraj.

Bitcoin Design

Silent payments

How silent payments impact and improve bitcoin UX

The latest newsletter is out, including news about the UX bootcamp at ABC Conference, Bitcoin Design Foundation Q3 report, Guide updates, and more.

Bitcoin Design Newsletter #67

Cosigners, tracking, TABConf, and more.

3 calls coming up in the next 3 days in the community. Come and hop in and join in on sharing your ideas and contributing to projects within the ecosystem that are building in public.

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...

A new page of the Inheritance Wallet reference design in the Bitcoin Design Guide is now live. It covers the onboarding flow for co-signers. Take a look.

Bitcoin Design

Cosigner onboarding

This page describes how Alice sets up the wallet in her app and activates it on her signing device.

There's a call for participation for the Open Source Design Devroom at FOSDEM (Brussels, Feb 1-2). Check it out:

Open Source Design

Open Source Design

Connecting open source & design! 🎨

The Bitcoin Design Foundation published its Q3 report. Big news is the announcement of the newly formed board. Take a peek.

Q3 2024 review - Bitcoin Design Foundation

You may have noticed that there were 8 announcements between the Q1 and Q2 reviews,...

More and more wallets now include multiple layers/networks/protocols, mostly looking to balance fees and security for different use cases. The bitcoin design guide has some ideas for how to build user interfaces around this approach.

Bitcoin Design

Multiple wallets

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

The latest newsletter just went out. There are quite a few calls, events, and conferences happening, along with various project updates. Take a peek.

Bitcoin Design Newsletter #66

Bitcoin UX Design Education, Summer of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Design Guide, Saving Satoshi, and more.

Catch up with the recording of the call with Dana Wallet, which focuses on silent payments and donations. They are looking for design contributors.

Join us on Thursday at 14:00 UTC for a design review call with the Saving Satoshi team.

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Design Review Call #39: Saving Satoshi · Issue #707 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

UTCTime: 2024-10-17 14:00 UTC Duration: 1h Agenda Saving Satoshi is both an education tool for bitcoin coding, as well as an epic sci-fi game. The ...

Is your project looking for design contributions? Or your company looking to hire a designer? Let us know (if it's related to bitcoin and open-source), we'll share and include it in the newsletter.

With BOLT12, silent payments and BIP353, contacts are becoming more common in wallets. Good thing there's a page in the Bitcoin Design Guide that lays out how to build a good user experience around contacts.

Bitcoin Design

Contacts

Design reference for a contacts feature in bitcoin wallets.

Yesterday we got 2 great presentations of design projects from Summer of Bitcoin. If you're looking for young and eager designers for your project, here you go.