The latest newsletter is out, and this one is quite packed. https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/bitcoin-design-newsletter-55
Two of the calls we have coming up this week. The community call is about catching up what is happening in the community and a few organizational things. On Friday, we dig deeper into covenants use cases in an open discussion format.
The call issues:
The multi-key wallet management page got updated with diagrams to better help convey user interactions. What do you think? https://bitcoin.design/guide/how-it-works/private-key-management/multi-key/#general-user-flow
Two of the calls this week dive into planning UX research sprints and interviews, and time-based recovery. Join us. Thanks to Mo and Michael for organizing.
Here are the respective issues, if you'd like to dig in a bit.
https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/611
https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/598
Generally, the best way to stay up-to-date with calls is the calendar.
https://bitcoin.design/calendar/
And if you missed one, you can catch up on the 'tube.
The Creative Freedom Summit is a free online conference about open-source design tools, happening next week on Jan 23-25. Right up our alley. Organized by Fedora. https://creativefreedomsummit.com
Some of the calls happening in the community this week. Open to all, you're welcome to join.
Easiest way to stay up-to-date with these is the calendar. https://bitcoin.design/calendar/
How might we interact with covenants in the future? A new design challenge, added by nostr:npub1yevrvtp3xl42sq06usztudhleq8pdfsugw5frgaqg6lvfdewfx9q6zqrkl. https://bitcoin.design/guide/resources/design-challenges/#challenge-7-covenants-for-scale
We recently launched the Bitcoin Design Foundation to support designers and design work in the open-source bitcoin ecosystem. If this sounds interesting to you, reach out. https://opencollective.com/bitcoin-design-foundation
Stacker News now has a new design territory. https://stacker.news/~Design
The latest newsletter is out. We're kicking off 2024 with calls on covenants, time-based recovery using miniscript, research sprints, a design huddle, and a review call with @Resolvr_app.
https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/bitcoin-design-newsletter-54
Lots of other interesting bits of activity in the community in the newsletter. Check it out and let us know how you like it.
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 (https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/609, https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/608). 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. https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/607
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 nostr:npub1aa0jg0dygjqarz6ptj96lzvqrqt2aw7xe6pw8z7z9we9xx0rhl9qh06zud.
https://bitcoin.design/guide/savings-wallet/time-based-recovery/
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.
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.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/spiral-launches-bitcoin-design-foundation-to-boost-adoption
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: http://opencollective.com/bitcoin-design-foundation
Big thanks to your first supporters @spiral, @bitbox, and individuals donors. We have big plans for 2024.
Join our next design review call on Thursday with the Bitcoin Keeper team on the redesigned home screens.
The latest newsletter just went out, including bits by
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https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/bitcoin-design-newsletter-53
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.
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.
https://bitcoin.design/guide/multiple-wallets/
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0K-UG-ozb4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ozpWl_aQc
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.
The WalletScrutiny case study is live. nostr:npub1j9kttlc86w63emmldd4h74rekyqpksqup6p9trhp5gjsf374qlyszvuswx 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.
https://bitcoin.design/guide/case-studies/walletscrutiny/
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.
We have a design review call with nostr:c55e37759af0d7fa8764a69dd3b2f73e093fede265c65d6f136d0dd5fabf69b7 coming up today at 14:00 UTC. More details here: https://bolt.fun/story/help-us-building-usdp-experience-10101--1379
Join us on the various calls happening in the community, we have 3 coming up this week. Check Discord for details. http://bitcoin.design
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!
https://opencollective.com/bitcoin-design-foundation
On the topic of donations, the foundation can also accept bitcoin through Opensats.
https://opensats.org/projects/bitcoindesign
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?
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avVK5YaRkqU&t=4s
Big thanks again to the first donors.