We're organizing another Designathon, from May 4-18. Let's get creative with bitcoin together. More to come very soon.

The Bitcoin Design Newsletter #72 is live. A quick read on catch-up on the activities in around the Bitcoin Design Community. This months issue is packed with job opportunities, community events for 2025 and an update on the Open Design Guide.

Bitcoin Design Newsletter #72

Community events for 2025, Open Design Guide, and lots of job opportunities.

Our event listing for Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 16 is live. Will you join us?

GAAD

Events - GAAD

There are many ways to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day and create awareness. Attend an event. Participate in an activity.

And here's our own planning issue:

GitHub

Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2025 event · Issue #753 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

Let's have another accessibility-focused event as part of Global Accessibility Awareness Day. We did this in 2024 and 2023, and accessibility in bi...

If you missed our design review with the @npub1gal0...z3t2 team about Lana and bitcoin-backed loans, here's the recording.

Coming up in 3 hours ⏰ View quoted note →

In our design review call on Thursday, we'll speak with the @npub1gal0...z3t2 team about Lana, their new platform for bitcoin loans. Get all the call details here (including slide deck and podcast link):

GitHub

Design Review Call #41: Lana · Issue #758 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

UTCTime: 2025-02-27 15:00 UTC Duration: 1h Agenda Galoy released a new product called Lana, a platform for bitcoin loans. The team will provide an ...

@Saving Satoshi got a nice write-up in Lightning news. Have you tried it yet?

Lightning News

Saving Satoshi: Revolutionary Game Merges with Hands-On Bitcoin Development

Saving Satoshi, is redefining how developers engage with bitcoin’s technical foundations. Combining a lighthearted sci-fi adventure with real-wor...

🙏 Big thanks to the Proton Wallet for sharing insight into their design process and answering our questions about bitcoin-via-email, user feedback, and more. Have you tried the product? What do you think?

We're supporting the design track for Summer of Bitcoin again. If your project would like to support a student, or if you're a designer and would like to mentor, reach out.

This Thursday at 15:00 UTC, we'll spend an hour with the @Proton Wallet team to learn about their product and design process. Join us.

GitHub

Design Review Call #40: Proton wallet · Issue #757 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

UTCTime: 2025-02-20 15:00 UTC Duration: 1h Agenda Proton is the world's leading privacy company, the makers of beloved and trusted products such as...

We put together a program for a self-guided 4-week Bitcoin & Design Learning Bootcamp. We created it for Summer of Bitcoin, but decided to also make it publicly available for anyone interested in a more guided learning experience.

Bitcoin Design

Learning bootcamp

Take-home bitcoin design challenges to practice and play with.

Every week includes reading material and a challenge, starting with the basics and then moving to more and more advanced topics. It's new, so it can probably be improved. Let us know what feedback you have. Thanks in advance.

Check out the latest newsletter with bits about Summer of Bitcoin, Bitsacco, Proton Wallet, Bitcoin Keeper, Breez and many more.

Bitcoin Design Newsletter #71

Summer of Bitcoin applications, Proton Wallet design review, Bitcoin Design podcast, and more.

Summer of Bitcoin applications are open.

Summer of Bitcoin

Summer of Bitcoin

A global, online summer internship program focused on introducing university students to bitcoin open-source development and design

The latest newsletter, and the first one for this year, is out. Get it while it's fresh.

Bitcoin Design Newsletter #70

Designathon 2, grant updates, South America UX bootcamp, and more.

Applications for Summer of Bitcoin 2025 will open on February 1. Will you join?

Summer of Bitcoin

Summer of Bitcoin

A global, online summer internship program focused on introducing university students to bitcoin open-source development and design

The latest (and last for 2024) newsletter is out. Take a peek.

Bitcoin Design Newsletter #69

Boot camps, Fellowships, Ecash, Inheritance, Saving Satoshi, and more.

The final page of the Inheritance Wallet reference design is now live. It covers succession and transfer of funds, maybe the most crucial moment in this use case. Shout-out to @Michael for completing this massive reference design.

Bitcoin Design

Succession & fund transfer

This page describes how Christina and Davide recover the wallet by using their inheritance keys.

These are the four fellows taking part in the Bitshala design fellowship, and the projects they will be contributing to. Very diverse projects covering merchant software, Bip 353 Human Readable Addresses, Ecash/Lightning/Nostr, and this very design community. Sanya will support the BTCPay team, partnering with Pav and Dstrukt. It’s a big project, so there is always a lot of design work that needs to be done, from fixing UX issue, to designing case studies, and tackling new features.

BTCPay Server

BTCPay Server is a self-hosted, open-source cryptocurrency payment processor. It

Deeksha is joining TwelveCash, working with Stephen to design for a long list of planned upcoming features for managing and pushing adoption of bitcoin usernames (aka BIP 353 Human Readable Addresses).

TwelveCash | Simple Bitcoin Usernames

Get your own TwelveCash address. Supports BOLT 12 offers, Silent payments, and more!

Sushant is helping Sovran, the Cashu and Lightning Wallet (+ nostr integration), to improve the application and balance it both being easy-to-use and feature-rich. @Erik https://sovranbitcoin.com Paperpsych will help the Bitcoin Design Community & Foundation with various activities, such as organizing the next Designathon, reviewing Bitcoin Design Guide PRs, writing the newsletter, and more.

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...

🙏 Huge thank you’s to everyone for making this fellowship happen and spending your time and energy helping make bitcoin better.

🍃 Calling South American UX Designers ✨ Are you ready to revolutionize the world of finance through UX design? 💫 This is your chance to make a real impact in the world of Bitcoin and beyond! 🌎 Start Your Journey To Becoming A UX Designer In The Bitcoin Industry 🎯 We're offering 10 promising UX designers an unparalleled opportunity: 🎁 Attend the BTC++ Conference 2025 for FREE 🎟️ Participate in an intensive 2-day UX training bootcamp 💡 Immerse yourself in the Bitcoin ecosystem and be exposed to career opportunities 🌟

The first @npub1m495...u22l 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.