If you missed the design review call with the nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 crew yesterday, here's a recording. https://youtu.be/ZxJuadgvrwQ
We have two design review calls coming up.
Damus is an iOS client for Nostr. We'll go over the design system: https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/531
Etta Wallet is a non-custodial bitcoin & lightning wallet focusing on usability, accessibility and good UX. https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/532
Global Accessibility Awareness Day is over, but let’s keep at it and make these considerations part of our daily design and development best practices. Will we need another awareness day next year, or can we fix all issues by then? Time will tell, it’s up to us 😉.
Shout-out to everyone who participated in our bitcoin accessibility day event, including nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5, nostr:npub1hcwcj72tlyk7thtyc8nq763vwrq5p2avnyeyrrlwxrzuvdl7j3usj4h9rq, nostr:npub1funq0ywh32faz0sf7xt97japu8uk687tsysj8gndj4ehe825sq4s70gs0p, nostr:npub15369wu3wzzar5fclhecyqfv683x69n6nhlg7rxqnsg2dydgxflpq3apswl, nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg, Muun, nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm, and others. https://accessibility.day/
Let’s keep at it. Browse the accessibility page in the design guide (https://bitcoin.design/guide/designing-products/accessibility/) and join our channel in Discord to discuss and get support.
Did you participate yesterday? Thank you! Reply or DM, let us know what you did and we’ll send over this badge. https://badges.page/b/naddr1qqsxzcmrv4ehx6tzd9kxjare94shwctjv4hx2umn94jxz7fdxgcryvczyzxznvep6reuvy6r3qh2f93raprhz6gv6ptxus9epuywt56rx642qqcyqqq82wgrkhml9
We just finished our accessibility jam session with an intro, how to test, what to look for, and more. Now we'll continue hacking away on things in Discord. Join us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eiBVLIWF_Q&feature=youtu.be
If you joined the call, make sure to DM so we can award you the "Accessibility Champion" badge.
Global Accessibility Awareness Day is today. We'd like to invite you to do something related to accessibility today. Have a conversation, browse the accessibility page in the guide (https://bitcoin.design/guide/designing-products/accessibility/), improve accessibility in your product.
https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/492
We are having a jam session in about 45 minutes with an intro, common issues, how to test, and more. Find the link in our Discord.
Thank you to the GAAD organizers for starting this initiative. https://accessibility.day
Our latest newsletter is out with design & bitcoin bits by community members, as well as Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Summer of Bitcoin, Fedimint, BTC Prague, BOB Space, Open Sats, and many more. Shout-out to all the builders in the space.
https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/bitcoin-design-newsletter-44
So you pressed a button, but you got no feedback that it worked. What do you do? That’s the situation many users with accessibility needs find themselves in. Make sure to not just provide visual feedback, but instruct screen readers to announce the change as well.
Join us tomorrow and participate in Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
Be a bitcoin accessibility champ and join us on May 18 for Accessibility Awareness Day by learning about and improving bitcoin accessibility. If you’re not sure where to start, join our kick-off session.
The most common accessibility problem we found is a lack of labels. What good is a button when you can’t tell what it does? These can be usually fixed application-wide in a few hours by adding simple attributes (like "aria-label": https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-label).
Some frameworks even have linters that automatically tell you when you have missing labels - super convenient. https://github.com/FormidableLabs/eslint-plugin-react-native-a11y
Testing your app takes just a few minutes. Here's how to test a web-based one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjN-XXgcJKo
More about accessibility here: https://bitcoin.design/guide/designing-products/accessibility/
We invite you to help raise awareness for this topic this Thursday (in 3 days) for Global Accessibility Awareness Day. https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/492
Join us on Wednesday for our next community call. We'll chat about Global Accessibility Awareness Day (which is Thursday) and how you can chip in, BTC Prague, and Bitcoin Miami.
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1BRJjZvoBQoJw
And the issue with more details:
https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/504
PS: We're back to Twitter Spaces for this one. Nostr Nests was technically better, but we got such little participation. Let's get everyone to Nostr soon.
Do you know of any good slide decks to introduce bitcoin to newbies in a local community setting?
Help improve bitcoin accessibility on May 18 and receive this subjectively valuable Nostr badge.
This is part of our call-to-action for accessibility awareness day. More here:
Are you attending BTC Prague? We're helping organize for hack day, and will also have an expo booth. Let us know if you'll be around (especially if you'd like to help out). http://btcprague.com
Another Figma config conference was announced for June. You can join online and for free and learn a lot about design. We presented there 2 years ago with an introduction to the Bitcoin Design Community that still holds up.
We are planning an event for improving the accessibility of bitcoin wallets for the Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 18. A lot can be done in one day. Come join us. https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/492
More on the larger effort here: https://accessibility.day
Or tune into the Jam design review call and get a deep-dive from Edi into CoinJoins and the Jam user experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0-xT5qjuu0
Our #nostr primer call is now uploaded. Learn about how it works and what makes it unique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQCGFnhEdl4
Last minute change of plans for the "Learning bitcoin & design" call today. Instead of design systems, it will be an intro to #nostr. https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/484
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsOPb7-X0AAi4wh?format=jpg&name=large
We have several calls happening this week, let’s take a look at some of them.
-
Stephen and Chris start us off with "Learning Bitcoin and Design: Wrangling Design Systems in Figma" on Wednesday at 14:00 UTC.
https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/484
-
Edi is our special guest for the Jam Design Review Call on Thursday at 14:00 UTC.
https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/490
-
And Mo rounds it off with UX Research Call #17 around building the UX Research Toolkit, also on Thursday, at 15:00 UTC.
A nice update by Steyn to the Savings Wallet page was merged in today, elaborating on various scenarios around losing and recovering keys and wallets. Take a peek: https://bitcoin.design/guide/savings-wallet/