The next grant by the Bitcoin Design Foundation is for nostr:npub1yashrajtj3ddn9u2ypzalp4qew4f9u8wls0tpf5kuvqarenqwckql8adnu and his work around best practices for silent payments UX. https://opencollective.com/bitcoin-design-foundation/updates/grant-4-yashraj-and-silent-payments
Interested in how these grants work? Find out more here: https://bitcoindesignfoundation.org/apply
Erik is going to try to convince us that ecash improves upon custodial solutions at nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r. You think he's got some good arguments? And are you going to join us for dev/hack/day? https://btcprague.com/dev-hack-day/ 
The Bitcoin Design Foundation supports nostr:npub1m0sxqk5uwvtjhtt4yw3j0v3k6402fd35aq8832gp8kmer78atvkq9vgcru with a grant for his design and UX research work on the Bitcoin Core App. https://opencollective.com/bitcoin-design-foundation/updates/grant-3-jakub-and-bitcoin-core-app
Did you already see the case study for the project? https://bitcoin.design/guide/case-studies/bitcoin-core-app/
Which bitcoin/lightning/ecash/nostr apps should we do accessibility tests on today for Global Accessibility Awareness Day?
Accessibility day is in two days (May 16). We'll have a kick-off workshop with an intro, and then spend the day testing apps and improving things. Join us, and in the mean time, check out the accessibility page in the guide. https://bitcoin.design/guide/designing-products/accessibility/
An update from the Bitcoin Design Foundation on a new donation from
Spiral and taking on more responsibility for giving design grants in the ecosystem.
https://opencollective.com/bitcoin-design-foundation/updates/spiral-donation-and-design-grants
The design review with nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg is coming up in 15 minutes. Join us in our Discord.
The latest newsletter is out. Catch up on accessibility day and BTC Prague events, BOLT 12 adoption campaign, Bitcoin Layers design, eNuts UX issues, AI-based UI Kit theming, and lots more... https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/bitcoin-design-newsletter-59
The newsletter is a straightforward summary of what is happening in the community. It reaches about 800 subscribers. You're welcome to help contribute to it.
As you may know, we are helping organize the design track at BTC Prague dev/hack/day. Are you joining? Interested in doing a presentation or workshop? Reach out.
Talks lined up so far include Ecash and Nostr Wallet UX, scaling <> adoption, ensuring product quality, open design collaboration, silent payments, PIX, and more. The program will take more shape over the next few weeks. We'll also have another design battle, like last year, which was a blast.
You find some snaps from last year's design track in the newsletter. https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/bitcoin-design-newsletter-45
Join our design review call with nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg on May 2. https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/672
The Bitcoin Design Foundation posted its first ever quarterly review for Q1 2024. Take a peek and see how this initiative is shaping up. https://opencollective.com/bitcoin-design-foundation/updates/q1-2024-in-review
The second grant of the Bitcoin Design Foundation goes to nostr:npub1u2jks7zqnvdtnu8vkehtfa3aemtaqp30s3az9qxcesa7whxlw8rsgs50au and his continued contributions to the Bitcoin UI Kit. Find out more here: https://opencollective.com/bitcoin-design-foundation/updates/second-grant-announcement-chris-and-bitcoin-ui-kit
We are organizing another event for Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 16. There were 230 events last year, looks like we are starting our planning very early. Accessibility is important for making bitcoin as widely usable as possible. https://accessibility.day
If you'd like to participate or help planning, join the accessibility channel in Discord, or check out our planning issue: https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/627
The latest newsletter is out. https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/bitcoin-design-newsletter-56
Help review the call transcript for our learning call about silent payments with nostr:npub1uaj9phu5lpxpczm3vaayt46m0yv0pduxzy7z6quwd2uggxue7fmqx9665u, and earn a few sats.
https://btctranscripts.com/bitcoin-design/learning-bitcoin-and-design/silent-payments/
Want to keep the Euro/Dollar/... value of your bitcoin stable, without actually selling your bitcoin? The new Stabilizing bitcoin value page describes techniques for just that. Some are more experimental than others, and each one has different pros and cons. Do you already use some of these?
https://bitcoin.design/guide/how-it-works/stabilizing-bitcoin-value/
Join our design review tomorrow at 13:00 UTC about the satsymbol.org proposal with the Synonym crew. More info here: https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/632
We are starting several UX explorations of bitcoin tech that is being discussed. We started with learning calls to get a basic understanding, and are hoping to end up with detailed designs and prototypes. We'd love to have more contributors. Join us.
Here are the respective issues:
https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/607
https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/636
https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/635
Design can play a very helpful role in projecting forward what using these technologies might be like, way before they can practically be used. For more, join our Discord.
Join us tomorrow to learn about FROST (8 UTC) and silent payments (15 UTC). Good design is based on thorough understanding, so let's get together and discuss this interesting bitcoin tech.