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?

Nice to see another accessibility improvement merged in Blue Wallet. This one is around QR codes.

GitHub

Make QR code on receive screen accessible · Issue #5388 · BlueWallet/BlueWallet

A blind person has no indication that there is a QR code on the screen - it does not exist for them. A blind bitcoiner actually just told me this, ...

Another lovely update to the design docs, this one is a first draft for the snapshot (assumeUTXO) feature UX.

Bitcoin Core App design docs

Snapshot

Design documentation for the Bitcoin Core QML application.

Had a fantastic time at Advancing Bitcoin. Big thanks to the organizers. Super high signal with so many whip-smart and friendly people. Now, how do we make all this bleeding-edge tech easily usable...?

I'd love to see more designers help mentor in the Summer of Bitcoin program. Happy to answer questions if this sounds remotely interesting.

People always complain about CSS, but I find it an elegant system. But, it takes a really long time to learn to use it well.

We refreshed the website of the Bitcoin Design Foundation (we only had a placeholder previously). Let me know what you think.

Bitcoin Design Foundation

We support designers who improve the bitcoin user experience.

We have a Bitcoin Design huddle coming up in a bit over an hour. I'll probably work on diagrams to illustrate different key management setups.

GitHub

Design Huddle #1: Getting our crayons out · Issue #609 · BitcoinDesign/Meta

UTCTime: 2024-01-12 14:00 UTC Duration: 1h Agenda This is a new call format focused on designing together hands-on, complementing our other calls t...

My wife started a podcast where she chats with her 2 sisters about moving to the US from Japan as kids, now living on different continents, and lots of other things. Big part of the motivation for doing this is to capture stories to leave behind for the kids eventually. We're naturally also testing out Value4Value, so you can find the show on @Fountain if you'd like to peek in. https://fountain.fm/show/sFWdFizgfYi4yXdeQr1m