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 @Michael. 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. 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: Big thanks to your first supporters @spiral, @bitbox, and individuals donors. We have big plans for 2024.
image Join our next design review call on Thursday with the Bitcoin Keeper team on the redesigned home screens.
image 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. 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. 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. @npub1j9kt...uswx 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. 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:
Join us on the various calls happening in the community, we have 3 coming up this week. Check Discord for details. image
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! On the topic of donations, the foundation can also accept bitcoin through Opensats. If you’re more of a cross-chain enthusiast (πŸ˜€), 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? https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/424/0x98720dd1925d34a2453ebc1f91c9d48e7e89ec29/0x98720dd1925d34a2453ebc1f91c9d48e7e89ec29-159 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. Big thanks again to the first donors.
PR review sessions are also an activity for designers. Here's one that just happened around a new page in the design guide about how applications can design for handling of multiple wallets.
FOSDEM and Creative Freedom Summit are currently open for talk submissions. Both are great open-source conferences full of interesting people worth checking out. If you're working on design on open-source, maybe consider attending and presenting. Creative Freedom Summit is a virtual conference dedicated solely to the features and benefits of Open Source creative tools on January 23 to 25. Proposals are due December 1. FOSDEM is about free and open-source software, with a specialized track on open design. It's in Brussels, on February 3 and 4. Proposals are due December 8.