My weekly update is live. The great designer that I am, I modified the colors of many pixels this week (some people call designers pixel pushers but that's wrong as pixels don't actually move around).

#73 /imagine

--weird

Having fun with a new header image for the "Receiving bitcoin page" in the guide (some weird stuff happening behind that phone, no clue what that is).

Bitcoin Design

Receiving bitcoin

How receiving works for a daily spending bitcoin wallet.

Code dependencies are just the worst. There are two projects I'd currently like to locally build for testing, but I can't due to some cryptic issues related to Ruby and paths. This has been an issue for me for many, many projects (not just Ruby/paths) and prevents me from participating more in the development and testing process. Hours of StackOverflow and AI consultation typically just end in frustration with no progress because one issue just leads to another, and never to actually understanding what's going on. Big thanks to all the devs who have helped me over the years in these situations, even though it often didn't go anywhere. I'd like to end this rant with an appeal to providing automated builds for testing wherever possible to allow for broad participation. I know it can be a lot of extra effort, but it really removes insurmountable barriers for many.

We just had our second call around porting the Bitcoin UI Kit to Penpot. One week in, the group is making really good progress, while naturally bumping into all kinds of things to sort out. I'm excited to see where we'll end up.

The Human Rights Foundation (https://hrf.org) announced a bounty (https://hrfbounties.org) last night for porting the Bitcoin UI Kit (http://bitcoinuikit.com) to Penpot (http://penpot.app), from the proprietary Figma (http://figma.com) to an open-source alternative. It's something we had in the project, and now we are getting a boost to make this a real thing. The bounty is of course open to anyone, my goal as maintainer is to help contributors do the best work possible so it really pushes the project forward. I'm ready for proper open design collaboration. A few people started gathering in the Bitcoin Design (http://bitcoin.design) Discord (#bitcoin-ui-kit-and-icons channel), and we had a kick-off call just now. The recording is already uplooaded, and notes are available as well (

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Explore Penpot support · Issue #27 · GBKS/bitcoin-wallet-ui-kit

Figma is a great tool and has been an amazing platform for the UI Kit, but also has some shortcomings for open-source collaboration. Penpot is an o...

We'll have another call next week to dig deeper into the UI Kit and try to identify a list of tasks. The whole process will be completely in the open and you're invited to join. I'm really excited for this.

Continuing design revisions on the upcoming chapter 4 of Saving Satoshi (@Saving Satoshi). This was so far the most difficult one for me on the design side because it's so code-heavy. Luckily, there's a great team to tell me what to do.

Just posted my weekly update. A mix of work on the Bitcoin Design Guide, Bitcoin UI Kit, and Saving Satoshi.

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#68 Sizzling fees - Christoph Ono

A calm one.

If you look really closely, this is what you see when sats stream into your wallet. Pure and raw magic internet money flowing through the veins of hyperspace.

Some renderings for indian sci-fi bitcoin miners in 2139, for Saving Satoshi. More controlled prompts at the top left, getting more loose and wild further down. Can't use any of those, but exploring the possible range is pretty important and then leads to "the right one".

And one more about accessibility, this time a problem/solution card combo from the Bitcoin Design card game.

I did a quick test for Global Accessibility Awareness Day and found a lot of issues in @Damus, even just on the profile screen. It's pretty much all labels, along with some grouping. It might seem like a lot, but this stuff is pretty straightforward to fix.

GitHub

Fix accessibility labels on profile page · Issue #1120 · damus-io/damus

Work in progress For [accessibility] I’d recommend finding a screen reader user who is also a developer to help build out requirements. Otherwise...

GitHub

Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023 event · Issue #492 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

May 18, 2023 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day and we got listed on the event page. Our research for the accessibility page has found quite a f...

Attempts at getting Midjourney to render a guy slipping on banana. Funny, but not funny in the way it was intended to be 😂

Accessibility testing is way more convenient than most think. Here's a short video that shows how to do it (Mac & Safari, looking at BTCPay invoice screen) and some common issues. Same if you want to test on your phone. More info and videos on the accessibility page in the Bitcoin Design Guide.

Bitcoin Design

Accessibility

Overview and practical tips for making bitcoin applications more accessible

Join us for Accessibility Awareness Day on May 18.

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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023 event · Issue #492 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

May 18, 2023 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day and we got listed on the event page. Our research for the accessibility page has found quite a f...

Needed some made-up bitcoin company & logos for a design mock-up. AI to the rescue. Here we have The Bitcoin Emporium, Satoshi's Secret Stash, Bit-o-rama, and (my favorite) Blockchain Boogie. AI language is such an interesting phenomenon, but good enough for a quick mock.

I sent out my weekly update, a quick and messy brain dump of some things I’ve worked on this week. Bitcoin Core App, Saving Satoshi, and Wallet Scrutiny mostly.

#58 Visually centered

Not geometrically centered.

Nosta is now open-source (posted this yesterday already, but looks like Nostr ate it, so here we go again).

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GitHub - GBKS/nosta-me: Here lies the code (computer code, not some type of secret code) for the Nosta interactive experience, the antidote for Nostr profile setup anxiety.

Here lies the code (computer code, not some type of secret code) for the Nosta interactive experience, the antidote for Nostr profile setup anxiety...

My fully validating, pruned node is now synced. Love it. Took 9 days on a 2+ year old Android.