Christoph Ono

I'll be on an X space next week to talk about Open Design. Tune in. https://x.com/chaoss_africa/status/1976603826137579926

First draft of the new milestone for Bitcoin Icons. What do you think of these? As always with icons, some are more intuitive than others. Also just realizing I need to add one for faucet.

Regarding graduated wallets, the multiple wallets reference design in the Bitcoin Design Guide goes in that direction. Multiple different setups in the same application for different use cases and appropriate levels of security. https://bitcoin.design/guide/multiple-wallets/ Where the activity seems currently in the ecosystem seems to be around whether Ecash, Ark, Spark, etc have a place at the very low-end for really small amounts.

I'm preparing a new release for the Bitcoin Icons (https://bitcoinicons.com). We've got some requests for mining pool, bitaxe, faucet, fingerprint, and derivation path. What are some other ones that should be added?

Saving Satoshi is a very special project to me. We got invited to speak about it with Nik Bhatia yesterday on his podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_o0uco89Jc

Are any bitcoin wallets currently implementing the "Graduated wallet" concept? Basically moving your bitcoin to more secure (and typically higher fee) layers as your funds increase. We also called this "progressive security" in the Bitcoin Design Guide (https://bitcoin.design/guide/getting-started/principles/#security).

I like asking AI to summarize and evaluate podcast transcripts (when I don't have time, or for a second perspective on certain topics). Claude is really good at this. Now for the first time I did this for a podcast that I was a guest at. Feels weird, but it is very helpful. Sounds like I am doing OK overall, but should give more specific examples and discuss design trade-offs and learnings more. Do you do this?

I was told that UX is one of the biggest problems in Nostr these days. What are people seeing that needs improvement? If this is the case, it would not surprise me. Early on in an ecosystem, it's about maturing the tech and infrastructure to a decent point. Then it commoditizes a bit, and the user experience gaps become more prevalent.

FOSS Backstage is now looking for speakers. It's a great conference. Take a look: https://26.foss-backstage.de/call-for-participation/

There appears to be a competition of who's the simplest. What does simple mean to you?

~50% of mobile users have at least one accessibility setting turned on, according to this Dutch research. Dark mode, bold text, zoom, increased contrast seem to be most used. Good to make sure our apps support these. https://appt.org/en/stats

Just peeked into Nosta.me stats. Looks great. Anyone know why that big change might stem from? Seems a bit suspicious. How's traffic for other clients? The dashboard is public here: https://eu.umami.is/share/Jmc84OrAe0BFvHB8/nosta.me nostr:npub1z29uqk4xl4pp6qxrcvufx20nnn782zcrtkmvmtfwkruc80l4v20sr9heag

WCAG 2.1 color contrast guidelines are a bit of a disservice to design. Color and contrast perception is much more complex than two simple ratios for small and large text. Modern operating systems have tons of features that allow users to adjust text size, contrast, etc. Perception changes based on ambient lighting and smartphones adjust the display to those conditions. There are also different font weights, and fonts with different characteristics (like the fine lines of Bodoni), as well as effects like outlines and drop-shadows. As well as different use cases - reading dense scientific material strains eyes more than a quick scan of some news headlines. WCAG 2.1 is like a blunt instrument. It can be a good starting point, but it's not the end-all-be-all (APCA is a good step forward). A more sophisticated approach also takes these other factors into consideration. Unlike designing for print, screen interfaces can be super dynamic and responsive and adjust to whatever the user needs and wants.

If there was an award for least intuitive design tool, Adobe InDesign would be my clear favorite. Even after decades of occasional use, selecting things, changing a color, resizing an image, and other super basic stuff remains absolutely unintuitive and I have to keep asking AI for how those things work. Always makes me super appreciative of the latest generation of design tools.