And one more about accessibility, this time a problem/solution card combo from the Bitcoin Design card game.

I did a quick test for Global Accessibility Awareness Day and found a lot of issues in @Damus, even just on the profile screen. It's pretty much all labels, along with some grouping. It might seem like a lot, but this stuff is pretty straightforward to fix.

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Fix accessibility labels on profile page · Issue #1120 · damus-io/damus

Work in progress For [accessibility] I’d recommend finding a screen reader user who is also a developer to help build out requirements. Otherwise...

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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023 event · Issue #492 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

May 18, 2023 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day and we got listed on the event page. Our research for the accessibility page has found quite a f...

Attempts at getting Midjourney to render a guy slipping on banana. Funny, but not funny in the way it was intended to be 😂

Accessibility testing is way more convenient than most think. Here's a short video that shows how to do it (Mac & Safari, looking at BTCPay invoice screen) and some common issues. Same if you want to test on your phone. More info and videos on the accessibility page in the Bitcoin Design Guide.

Bitcoin Design

Accessibility

Overview and practical tips for making bitcoin applications more accessible

Join us for Accessibility Awareness Day on May 18.

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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023 event · Issue #492 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

May 18, 2023 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day and we got listed on the event page. Our research for the accessibility page has found quite a f...

Needed some made-up bitcoin company & logos for a design mock-up. AI to the rescue. Here we have The Bitcoin Emporium, Satoshi's Secret Stash, Bit-o-rama, and (my favorite) Blockchain Boogie. AI language is such an interesting phenomenon, but good enough for a quick mock.

I sent out my weekly update, a quick and messy brain dump of some things I’ve worked on this week. Bitcoin Core App, Saving Satoshi, and Wallet Scrutiny mostly.

#58 Visually centered

Not geometrically centered.

Nosta is now open-source (posted this yesterday already, but looks like Nostr ate it, so here we go again).

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GitHub - GBKS/nosta-me: Here lies the code (computer code, not some type of secret code) for the Nosta interactive experience, the antidote for Nostr profile setup anxiety.

Here lies the code (computer code, not some type of secret code) for the Nosta interactive experience, the antidote for Nostr profile setup anxiety...

My fully validating, pruned node is now synced. Love it. Took 9 days on a 2+ year old Android.

A quick 2 minute 25 second demo of an accessibility test of a bitcoin mobile wallet. Easy fixes all over the place that can really help people.

Just posted my weekly update.

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#55 Accessibility - Christoph Ono

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I posted my weekly update. As usual on Substack, but this time also as a NIP-23 long-form note. Would be nice to have YouTube and Twitter link expansion. https://blogstack.io/naddr1qqyxvdf4xgmxxdmrqywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wspzpde3ulaauhqe94unlafq5mkfra5ktawclgdkfcfpwyyf5e09gpf9qvzqqqr4gu72ft49

Two big projects launching soon. Super excited for it.

Verifying my Nostr Nests identity: D9P7YrHhvCJm5NGCsJ7_wN6f9yIRj0KeKBOPKwiK3bw

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Alright, on the way to Advancing Bitcoin now. Excited to meet, chat and exchange.

Thanks to whoever send me some sats. I cannot tell where those came from or by whom. So... thanks internet.

# #52 An even shorter one? _Half family trip, half work._ My work week started Wednesday afternoon after getting back from a family trip. Was a great time to get bitcoin off of my mind, and then it was straight back into action with core and community calls that afternoon. For [Saving Satoshi](http://savingsatoshi.com/), we are heads down now on getting our demo out. I spammed our [demo milestone](

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saving-satoshi/saving-satoshi

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with a ton of minor polish things that should be tightened up for a first low-key release. Lots of stuff to do across lessons content, story, design, image generation and development. But it’s the part of the project where a long to-do list of really small things is the modus operandi, and that’s totally normal. It can just feel a bit overwhelming due to the broad spread of the to-dos.  The [Satlantis review call](http://satlantis.net/) was super interesting. Game design is a really intricate art, and there’s plenty of overlap with designing applications (like onboarding, designing for different types of player personas, etc). After a discussion came up around Nostr onboarding not being great (sparked by this [note](https://damus.io/note1skcywhsxkr545kmydfkka45u964ypy4u74ycgmw9gqx3t5850ugqe9nlte)), I shared some work-in-progress on a Nostr web app design I’ve been toying with. Everything is in this video (and a [live link](

Nosta

Nostr profiles. Nice and easy.

The Bitcoin Core App ([design docs](https://bitcoincore.app/)) dev gang is working hard at wrapping up development for V1. Next week, Mo and I will put together some documentation around testing (test build is [here](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui-qml/pull/211)) and launch. Also need a bit more design documentation (small stuff like input field validation logic). But the big thing next week is [Advancing Bitcoin](https://www.advancingbitcoin.com/). Time to wrap up and release a new version of the [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.

and get that workshop ready. It’s going to be super exciting to meet all those builders that make this amazing ecosystem tick. 👋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpvMIPCXsAUhIFc?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 Continuing with image generation for Saving Satoshi. I am getting a better hang for the workflow, but still find it very difficult to specify composition, camera angle, etc.

# 51 A short one... _A finger in every pot._ This week was a quiet one, a bit all over the place, so I’ll keep it really brief. Let’s start with [Saving Satoshi](http://savingsatoshi.com/). There’s the [weekly image generation](https://www.figma.com/file/0Fg2IiEbLI5o8juawKqkJM/Saving-Satoshi-images?node-id=103%3A915&t=BSgXEvq0ZL3TLSbR-1) for Chapter 4, along with various discussions and mini-tasks around milestones, personas, UX details, the story line, PR reviews, etc. The team is smack in the middle of building, pretty much. The project requires a lot of time and focus right now with so many moving parts.  [Advancing Bitcoin](http://advancingbitcoin.com/) is coming up, so took care of a few tasks for our next milestone. I added the workshop video and some basic case study summaries to the [Bitcoin UI Kit website](

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.

Had discussions with Chris around component structure and design system organization. Luckily Chris has some super handy plug-ins to keep things orderly, which is a surprisingly complex and opaque task. I’m excited for the next release and the conference. Planning for [BTC Prague](

BTC Prague

BTC Prague - The biggest bitcoin event in Europe

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is also progressing. Still early, but sounds super promising. Jarol is hammering away on the Bitcoin Core App. Latest pre-release [review PR is here](

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Try it out and leave feedback if you have a moment. I enjoyed the call with the [Simple Crypto](http://simple-crypto.app/) team this week. Nice turn-out and a good conversation. Helped Mo a bit with her [PR](https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Guide/pull/981) for adding User Personas to the guide. Also joined the [UX research call]( Super nice to see around 10 people in there, all excited about open research. Also wrote a [document](

Google Docs

Bitcoin Design project history

This is a total work-in-progress draft by Christoph where he’s trying to outline projects that he’s observed in the Bitcoin Design Community, a...

listing out projects that happened in the design community, as a way to reflect and help decide what types of research and design tools are useful based on past needs. And the usual day-to-day conversations, planning, helping a little here and there, etc. I’ll be off until Wednesday for a short break with the family, so I took care of a few things for next week, like newsletter editing. Should be all in good shape there. And that’s it, have a good weekend. 🏂

Hooray, I received my first scam DM on Nostr 🚀