The future of bitcoin UX once the AIs replace designers.

Saving Satoshi chapter 6 is now live. In this one, you learn how to write Javascript or Python to construct bitcoin transactions. Story-wise, you're scheming to find out what really motivates your nemesis Vanderpoole.

Saving Satoshi

Saving Satoshi

Explore the mysteries of Satoshi and learn about bitcoin along the way.

If you give it a whirl, we love hearing feedback. @Saving Satoshi

We refreshed the website of the Bitcoin Design Foundation (we only had a placeholder previously). Let me know what you think.

Bitcoin Design Foundation

We support designers who improve the bitcoin user experience.

Weekly update time. Quite a bit going on in @Bitcoin Design and the projects I'm helping out with.

#86 200x

In fees.

My latest weekly update with design stuff I worked on this week.

#85 Treeception

For scale.

We have a Bitcoin Design huddle coming up in a bit over an hour. I'll probably work on diagrams to illustrate different key management setups.

GitHub

Design Huddle #1: Getting our crayons out · Issue #609 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

UTCTime: 2024-01-12 14:00 UTC Duration: 1h Agenda This is a new call format focused on designing together hands-on, complementing our other calls t...

Block clock layout diagrams. This should look great from huge screens to tiny smart watch screens. Prob still needs some tweaks. https://bitcoincore.app/block-clock/#layout-logic

Happy HODL day. 10 years ago today, a drunk forum user unintentionally coined this abbreviation in this post:

I AM HODLING

I AM HODLING

If I adopt the projects I reviewed, I can earn sats by streaming video, going to restaurants and sharing links, and convert them to synthetic stablecoins and Ecash for coinjoin payments to AI to help code Miniscript, transcribe videos, and organize my japanese bitcoin community. A glorious potential future to behold. But seriously, lots of interesting explorations and capabilities in those projects (and I only looked at a fraction). https://bolt.fun/tournaments/legends-of-lightning-vol2/projects

Reviewing Legends of Lightning hackathon projects right now. Tons of great work there, congrats to all the participants. Make sure to take a look and support your fellow builders. A little bit of feedback can go a long way. @BOLT🔩FUN https://bolt.fun/tournaments/legends-of-lightning-vol2/projects

Listen to Jonas, @Johns from Peak Shift Ltd. and I talk about @Saving Satoshi and @BOLT🔩FUN for an intense 54 minutes.

We put together a teaser and demo video for our submission of @Saving Satoshi to the @BOLT🔩FUN Legends of Lightning hackathon. Can't believe the project is already a year old. We have a great team working on it and making good progress with the lesson content. Also, we're just hackathoning for fun and glory and not competing for prizes. Congrats to all the other teams that participated and put their hearts and minds into their projects. You can check them out here: https://bolt.fun/tournaments/legends-of-lightning-vol2/projects

The Bitcoin UI Kit now has its own plugin to easily change the theme and keep the design system tidy. Here's a walkthrough. You can get it here on Figma Community: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1254869452790045259/bitcoin-ui-kit And the source code is here:

GitHub

bitcoin-wallet-ui-kit/figma-plugins/bitcoin-ui-kit at main · GBKS/bitcoin-wallet-ui-kit

A design system and UI kit for Bitcoin wallet applications. - GBKS/bitcoin-wallet-ui-kit

Wanna help with the UI Kit project? Let me know.

Bitcoin UI Kit

Bitcoin UI Kit

This UI kit provides a design foundation for prototypes, concept explorations and open-source projects to kickstart the design process.

Just submitted a talk proposal for FOSDEM about open-source design and sustainability in @Bitcoin Design. Proposals are due tomorrow if you'd also like to present something.

Open Source Design

Open Source Design

Connecting open source & design! 🎨

This is my default easing curve for page transitions. 400ms with a (0.5,0,0.2,1) bezier curve . What do you use?

Easings

Easings - Generate, test and share custom easing curves.

Test common easing curves on a range of interfaces. Or generate and share your own cubic-bezier curves.

The song I listened to most often this year, according to Apple Music.

My wife started a podcast where she chats with her 2 sisters about moving to the US from Japan as kids, now living on different continents, and lots of other things. Big part of the motivation for doing this is to capture stories to leave behind for the kids eventually. We're naturally also testing out Value4Value, so you can find the show on @Fountain if you'd like to peek in. https://fountain.fm/show/sFWdFizgfYi4yXdeQr1m

Some changes I am looking into for the Bitcoin UI Kit (

Bitcoin UI Kit

Bitcoin UI Kit

This UI kit provides a design foundation for prototypes, concept explorations and open-source projects to kickstart the design process.

First, expand the color palette from 4 to 12, with one primary color, to make the use of color more flexible. Second, replace light/dark mode with style sets that can affect color, type, and other properties. This should make it 100x easier to style the kit to your preferences. See it in action in this video. Third, publish a custom Bitcoin UI Kit plugin with various helper tools. Watch the video to see a work-in-progress version in action and how it enables the theming system. After that, we'll need to update the website to reflect the changes, and also create some how-to videos and explainers. I'd love to have more contributors on these efforts and make this the best UI Kit in past, present, future across the multiverse.

We've had over 400 calls in the Bitcoin Design Community since the inception mid-2020. About 250 those are recorded and on YouTube & BitcoinTV. Creating covers for the videos is always a fun little exercise, making something that looks interesting somehow without much meaning to it. Here are some from mostly recent design guide jam session. https://www.youtube.com/c/BitcoinDesign

BitcoinTV.com

Bitcoin Design

Videos created by the Bitcoin Design Community, mostly recordings from our calls.

How can the Bitcoin UI Kit be improved? I am currently gathering ideas for a 2024 roadmap.

Bitcoin UI Kit

Bitcoin UI Kit

This UI kit provides a design foundation for prototypes, concept explorations and open-source projects to kickstart the design process.