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Christoph Ono
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Designer & developer. Helping improve bitcoin design with many others at https://bitcoin.design . I write a weekly update at https://gbks.substack.com . ✌️
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GBKS 2 months ago
Any preference for AI icons? image (Just having fun, these will not go into the icon set)
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GBKS 2 months ago
Pretty amazing what you can do in a day with €0.5 worth of Claude Sonnet 4 credits via Github Copilot in Visual Studio Code. Man do I wish that these workflows were also available for design tasks.
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GBKS 2 months ago
Two more icons from these explorations. image
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GBKS 2 months ago
Which variations do you prefer? Other ideas to try? image
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GBKS 2 months ago
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. image
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GBKS 2 months ago
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. 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.
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GBKS 2 months ago
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?
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GBKS 2 months ago
Saving Satoshi is a very special project to me. We got invited to speak about it with Nik Bhatia yesterday on his podcast.
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GBKS 3 months ago
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?
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GBKS 3 months ago
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.
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GBKS 3 months ago
There appears to be a competition of who's the simplest. image What does simple mean to you?
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GBKS 4 months ago
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: image @Nosta
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GBKS 4 months ago
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.