Which open-source bitcoin projects & companies are looking for designers or design support?

There are two exciting hackathons coming up next week via @BOLT🔩FUN, Legends of Lighting Vol 2 and Nostrasia. Join the fun.

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BOLT.FUN is the incubator and school for makers—where ideas grow, projects launch, and freedom is pursued together.

Some say the ideal way to spend a weekend is to watch recordings of Bitcoin Design calls (not sure who says that, maybe AI bots?). On this weeks menu are an Etta Wallet design review, UX research on Geyser, and a Bitcoin Core App design catch-up. Happy binging. https://www.youtube.com/@BitcoinDesign/videos For upcoming calls, check out our calendar, and you're welcome to join.

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Calendar

Design reviews, community calls, project sessions, and other events planned by the Bitcoin Design Community

Fees are tricky in bitcoin, and lightning makes them even more complex. We updated the "Send fees" page in the Bitcoin Design Guide with extra details around different scenarios, and how to design for them. Contextually appropriate explainers and options are the key.

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Send fees

UX design guidelines for displaying bitcoin transaction fees and helping users make informed decisions.

These concepts are important for designers and other contributors to understand as well. If you have not been part of a reading group, give it a try. Even just listening in is often a great way to learn a few things. View quoted note →

Our latest newsletter went out yesterday. Shout-out to everyone who helps make bitcoin more usable, and a special shout-out to the Summer of Bitcoin students who presented their design and accessibility work for lightning wallets on the last community call.

Bitcoin Design Update #49

Summer of Bitcoin, conferences and hackathons.

We are improving search on the Bitcoin Design Guide. What has your experience been finding information you are looking for? What can be improved. https://deploy-preview-1034--bitcoin-design-site.netlify.app/search

Our community call is about to start. Hop on in.

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Also make sure to join our community call in about 3 hours (at 14:00 UTC). This time we're back on Nostr Nests.

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The latest Bitcoin Design update just went out, with lots of updates from around the community, including @WalletScrutiny and @Geyser.

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Bitcoin Design Update #47 - Bitcoin Design

Wallet Scrutiny redesign, Geyser review, AI4All tournament, and more.

Everything in the update is sourced from activity in the Discord channels. If you have news to share for upcoming newsletters, join us there.

Bitcoin wallets exist in many shapes. Security appropriate for one use case may drastically differ for another one. That's why the concept of progressive security is so important. Wallets can proactively support users and guide them towards good practices.

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Design principles

The key principles to follow when designing bitcoin products.

Also see the security page in the Daily spending wallet reference design for tips and techniques.

Bitcoin Design

Security

How extra layers of security can be added to bitcoin daily spending wallets via PINs, face Id, and other techniques.

What's a lot of money to one person may be very little to another, so there are no hard rules. But, ambiguity is a common challenge in designing for privacy and security. Let's find good ways to support bitcoiners so they can avoid the many pitfalls out there. What are some other good practices to consider?

The latest newsletter just got published. All kinds of activity in the community, with quite a few calls on very diverse topics, open for anyone to join. Take a peek, and join our community call on Twitter Spaces in about 4 hours (14:00 UTC).

Bitcoin Design Newsletter #46

Payjoin, Liana, AI hackathon, uMlando, Fedimint, and more.

Here's the space. We'll see (hear, really) you soon. https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1rmGPkgZNZLKN

And for round two, here are awardees of the @BTC Prague expo badge. It was excellent to meet you and hang out. @Stephen DeLorme, @Johns from Peak Shift Ltd., @Liam, @EVAN KALOUDIS, @glozow, @Pavlenex, @Dennis, @bumi, @Moritz, @Kwinten, @saunter, @HBerkoe, @Conor Okus, @Mariusz Kogen, @Phil Here's the badge link, make sure to claim it so it shows up on your profile. https://badges.page/b/naddr1qq3ky6t5vdhkjm3dv3jhx6t8dckkyarr94c8yct8w4jj6v3sxgej6etcwphsygyv9xejr58nccf58zpw5jtz86z8w95se5zkdeqtjrcguhf5xd425qpsgqqqw5us3p7mtm Did we forget someone? Leave a comment or DM.

We just awarded our first batch of @BTC Prague hackday badges. Big thanks to all of you for stopping by our design lounge, @Stephen DeLorme, @Johns from Peak Shift Ltd., @Liam, @EVAN KALOUDIS, @glozow, @Pavlenex, @Dennis, @bumi, @Moritz, @Kwinten, @saunter, @HBerkoe, @Conor Okus, @Martin Gabrhel 🇨🇿🧑🏻‍💻, @Adam Mashrique, @Lounès. Here's the badge link, make sure to claim it so it shows up on your profile. https://badges.page/b/naddr1qq4ky6t5vdhkjm3dv3jhx6t8dckkyarr94c8yct8w4jj6v3sxgej6er9wckksctrdvkkgcteqgsgc2dny8g083sngwyzafyky05ywutfpng9vmjqhy8s3ewngvm24gqrqsqqqafe7vagwq Did we forget someone? Leave a comment or DM.

The latest newsletter is live, with updates from the past few weeks and a brief summary of our hackday and expo presence at BTC Prague. Join us today for our community call to chat more about that.

Bitcoin Design Newsletter #45

Prague, Accessibility day, Etta & BDG Wallets, UX research kit, and more...

Here's the Twitter Space for the call later (in about 3.5 hours at 14:00 UTC). https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1ypKddQZNZpKW?s=20 Keep up with all the action via our calendar (https://bitcoin.design/calendar/) and follow page (https://bitcoin.design/social-media/). And if you have something to add in the next newsletter, share it in the "spread-the-word" channel in our Discord. Thanks for all your contributions and keeping bitcoin & design a thing.

Join us for Community call #50 on Wednesday. Quite a few people met at BTC Prague where we organized a hack-day design lounge and had an expo booth, for the first time. There was a great energy throughout, and we'll share some of our experience. Set a reminder and join the Twitter Space: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1ypKddQZNZpKW Find out more on the call issue:

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Community Call #50 · Issue #537 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

UTCTime: 2023-06-14 14:00 UTC Duration: 1h Agenda We'll go over the community activity at the BTC Prague conference, as well as the latest newslett...

Join us at our booth at the BTC Prague expo to chat about all things design.

BTC Prague hackday was fantastic, here are some snapshots from yesterday. And the action continues at the expo until Saturday.

The design lounge is coming together for BTC Prague hack day tomorrow.

Tick tock, almost time for BTC Prague. We'll be there all days, from June 7 - 10. Stop by at hackday and meet us at our expo booth to chat about open-source design and bitcoin, bring along your project for feedback. Big thanks to Spiral for sponsoring.