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A free, open-source community resource for designers, developers, and others working on non-custodial #bitcoin products. https://bitcoin.design
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Bitcoin Design 2 years ago
image We have 2 calls coming up. In the huddle, we'll loosely collaborate on designs together hands-on. In the learning call, we'll try to make sense of covenants. More info in the issues (
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Issues · BitcoinDesign/Meta
Discussions around the processes and coordination of the Bitcoin Design Community - Issues · BitcoinDesign/Meta
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Issues · BitcoinDesign/Meta
Discussions around the processes and coordination of the Bitcoin Design Community - Issues · BitcoinDesign/Meta
 Join us. In many of our calls, we look at and discuss designs. The huddle format is about having calls where we get our hands dirty and create. Anyone can suggest a design to work on. The covenant exploration came out of interest in the topic and general confusion about what covenants actually are. Maybe we can demystify together.
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Explore covenants UX · Issue #607 · BitcoinDesign/Meta
There's interest in researching design solutions around covenants. Briefly, if I understand correctly, covenants are changes to bitcoin that would ...
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Bitcoin Design 2 years ago
The new "time-based recovery" page just went live. It's about designing a miniscript-based feature for recovering your multikey wallet, even if you lose lots of keys and backups. Great work by @Michael.
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Time-based recovery
A UX reference design for a simple multi-key bitcoin wallet a recovery path designed for long term cold storage.
 Many things can be done with Miniscript. It's more of a general toolbox. So it's up to us to identify good uses of the technology and build help products and features of it. An emergency recovery option is one of them, and can be a life saver in certain situations. This new page is a sub-page to the savings wallet reference design. Over the next months, we will make more updates to this set of pages as we flesh out more miniscript based features, and multikey UX in general. This functionality is quite complex, so we're thinking of organizing a reading/learning/discussion session on the page in the new year. Would you be interested? We'd also love to hear from projects that work in this area for possible collaboration.
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Bitcoin Design 2 years ago
Big thanks to @BitcoinMagazine for covering the launch of the Bitcoin Design Foundation and its mission to support sustainability around design efforts in the open-source bitcoin ecosystem.
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The Bitcoin Design Foundation Launches Supporting Design In Bitcoin Ecosystem
By providing financial support to talented individuals and community projects, the foundation aims to fuel ongoing innovation and development withi...
 To reach its potential of providing an alternative financial system, bitcoin needs to become more usable for more people and use cases around the world. At the same time, the technology keeps maturing and evolving and new approaches to interaction are needed. Design can be the connective tissue and bring our human nature and technology in harmony. The Bitcoin Design Community is laser-eye-focused on this mission, and the Bitcoin Design Foundation will help support builders and initiatives who help move things forward. It’s an effort by and for the community. If you’re interested in donating or applying for a grant, reach out via our website:
Bitcoin Design Foundation - Open Collective
We organize funding for open-source bitcoin design work.
 Big thanks to your first supporters @spiral, @bitbox, and individuals donors. We have big plans for 2024.
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Bitcoin Design 2 years ago
The latest newsletter just went out, including bits by @Bitkey, the self-custody bitcoin wallet built by the team at Block., @BOLT🔩FUN, @Geyser, @WalletScrutiny, @Saving Satoshi, ARTSNL, @Hub21rs, @Alby, @Orange Manufacturing Group , @Bitcoin Grove, @BitBox and others.
Bitcoin Design Newsletter #53
Managing multiple wallets, Hub21 launch, call transcripts, and more.
 Shout-out to all the builders. We're taking a short newsletter break over the holidays and you can expect the next one on Jan 10 in the brand new year of 2024.
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Bitcoin Design 2 years ago
image If you're designing a bitcoin application that can manage multiple wallets in parallel, there's a new reference design in the guide that might interest you. It starts with use cases and key handling and dives into diverse user flows.
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Multiple wallets
A UX reference design for a multi-key bitcoin wallet designed for both daily spending and storing medium amounts.
 It's a quite intricate design. In the review process, the team spent 2 hours reading through the page together. If you'd like to learn by listening to these conversations, here are the recordings. This is the first iteration of this page and we'd love to hear your feedback to improve it. Thank you to all who contributed to this page already.
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Bitcoin Design 2 years ago
The WalletScrutiny case study is live. @WalletScrutiny and the community collaborated to redesign their brand and website, which helps everyday bitcoin users verify whether their wallet app is secure and matches the open-source code.
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WalletScrutiny
This was a collaboration between WalletScrutiny and the Bitcoin Design Community to help with the redesign of the website.
 The case study walks through the discovery, branding, research and design steps of the process as well as which decisions were made and why. Thank you to everyone involved. The work is ongoing and you are welcome to join and chip in.
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Bitcoin Design 2 years ago
The foundation has received a second donation. Thank you so much to Ferreyro, as well as BitBox, for being the first donors, we really appreciate it!
Bitcoin Design Foundation - Open Collective
We organize funding for open-source bitcoin design work.
 On the topic of donations, the foundation can also accept bitcoin through Opensats.
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Bitcoin Design Community - funded by OpenSats
Design resources for teams building better Bitcoin products.
 If you’re more of a cross-chain enthusiast (😀), the foundation also submitted a profile for the latest Gitcoin round, which has about a week to go. Maybe someday Gitcoin can also accept bitcoin, considering the name similarity? https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/424/0x98720dd1925d34a2453ebc1f91c9d48e7e89ec29/0x98720dd1925d34a2453ebc1f91c9d48e7e89ec29-159 And if you missed it, we had a community call last week to introduce the foundation - why it exists, what the goals are, how it is set up, how it relates to the community, and much more. Big thanks again to the first donors.
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Bitcoin Design 2 years ago
PR review sessions are also an activity for designers. Here's one that just happened around a new page in the design guide about how applications can design for handling of multiple wallets.
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Bitcoin Design 2 years ago
FOSDEM and Creative Freedom Summit are currently open for talk submissions. Both are great open-source conferences full of interesting people worth checking out. If you're working on design on open-source, maybe consider attending and presenting. Creative Freedom Summit is a virtual conference dedicated solely to the features and benefits of Open Source creative tools on January 23 to 25. Proposals are due December 1.
Creative Freedom Summit
Creative Freedom Summit - Hosted by the Fedora Design Team
The conference dedicated to the features and benefits of Open Source creative tools. Be inspired and learn how you can enjoy more creative freedom!
 FOSDEM is about free and open-source software, with a specialized track on open design. It's in Brussels, on February 3 and 4. Proposals are due December 8.
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Open Source Design
Connecting open source & design! 🎨
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Bitcoin Design 2 years ago
In our community call yesterday, we discussed the newly formed Bitcoin Design Foundation. It was founded to ensure the long-term sustainability of the Bitcoin Design Community. We went over the backstory, where we are now, and the curvy path in between. Thank you to everyone who made it to the call. And an especially big shout-out to @BitBox for becoming the first donor. The foundation is in service of the community, let’s use it to do more good design work and move the bitcoin experience forward together. We use Open Collective to host the Foundation. To learn more, donate, get in touch, and more, visit the website here:
Bitcoin Design Foundation - Open Collective
We organize funding for open-source bitcoin design work.
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Bitcoin Design 2 years ago
In 2021, Patrícia Estevão gathered some very thorough research on how people use and perceive bitcoin, via live interviews from participants all around the world. Her findings, especially the personas she created, can be very useful for guiding projects. More below... Read the full 14,000 word report. It's absolutely worth it, not only for the findings, but also the process.
Bitcoin UX Research
This research is meant to provide in-depth qualitative knowledge of how people use or perceive Bitcoin. By doing so, we hope that solution creators...
 The Bitcoin Design Guide includes a summary for the personas for quick reference by designers and builders.
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User personas
How to use bitcoin user personas to build better products, including several bitcoin-specific personas
 And if you'd like to put your feet up and watch a video, here's the presentation by Patricia herself. It can be hard to put ourselves in the minds and contexts of the people we design and build for. Luckily we have UX researchers to help us with that.
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