Would you agree? If not, I guess that means you like taxes 🤪

The YouTube user experience in 2024: - Consider ad-exposure to content value trade-off - 50% chance of bailing - Mute device - Click link - Do something else for ~3 minutes - Come back - 50% chance of giving up since ad is still running - Unmute and watch for ~5 minutes - Ad comes on, mute and do something else - Repeat... My default is now to not watch videos unless I am really sure ahead of time that they are worthwhile. The ad/content ratio is not reasonable. This used to be very different 1-2 years ago.

Bitcoin drink from the future (byproduct of Saving Satoshi brainstorming).

AI tools are now thoroughly entangled in my workflows and it's a huge power-up. Github Copilot in VS Code, Midjourney for illustrations (bits of Photoshop Generative Fill also), Claude/ChatGPT for text. Nothing for UI yet.

Finally finished reading this. I find it a helpful framework for some of the dynamics around bitcoin and crypto.

I posted my 100th open design update, a quick summary of what I've been up to the last two weeks. It's not a great read, since I prefer to spend my time and energy more on doing things, rather than writing about doing things, so don't read it.

#100 Not special

Just round.

It's a little tricky to tame the various payment request formats in receive screens into a coherent experience, they are just so different. Here's a rough stab at it. Hopefully we end up in a situation where we can just use one of them. But tech is evolving right now and we don't have broad interoperability yet. Plus, new users need to learn and sometimes make decisions on the fly to optimize fees, etc. We'll see...

Quick mock-up of lightning liquidity visual from a conversation in the @Bitcoin Design Discord. Avoiding the terms liquidity, inbound, outbound, etc.

A super minor update to the units & symbols page went live. It's about using a thin space rather than a regular space for digit grouping, which is an international standard (as with all standards, some countries do their own thing).

Bitcoin Design

Units & symbols

How to display and format bitcoin and currency units in bitcoin applications.

And practically speaking, a regular space may still be more legible for certain fonts. And we're still in an awkward place with sats being 1/100M of a ₿. 1/1B would be cleaner. Oh well.

I re-recorded my talk "Building the right thing" from @BTC Prague dev/hack/day design track. It's really just a series of loose thoughts and questions around scaling and adoption and finding something impactful to work on. Hope it's interesting.

Sounds like a good idea. @BTC Prague

European elections are on. Use your vote, or others will decide for you. I’ll make my way to the voting booth on Sunday morning right when they open. https://elections.europa.eu/video/en/ov/en/

Let’s do that “translate war into peace” thing. Seems better, doesn’t it?

There's a lot in the Bitcoin UI Kit. @Chris put together a great video walkthrough.

Quick test using AI to identify and fix accessibility issues (here the reply buttons under Damus iOS notes, using Github Copilot in Visual Studio Code). Looks very promising and should safe tons of time and brain power. Why not always run this on UI PRs?

For accessibility awareness day, I tested several apps and it's not good. Amethyst Android - Grade B+ eNuts iOS - Grade D Mutiny iOS - Grade D Snort Android & Web - Grade E Damus iOS - Grade E Primal iOS & Web - Grade F You're pretty much left out in the cold as a blind user. I know some of these are super new, done by small teams, open-source contributions, etc. But there just seems to be a general disinterest in properly marking up UI elements. This stuff is easy to fix, just needs a few motivated hands.

Good read.

Result of a Bitaxe workshop yesterday organized by @WantClue and the Bitcoin Munich Meetup. Highly recommend it. Time to do a little bit of hashing now…

Nice post by Umami about how they balance open-source and running a company.

Challenges of Running an Open Source Company – Blog - Umami

Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.

Some quick concept explorations with @Chris around beefing up the visual expression of @OpenSecret. Would you use it?