Bitcoin Design Community @bitcoin_design is a community helping designers deliver better experiences on top of #Bitcoin.
Why is Bitcoin design important and how to join the community?
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Bitcoin has many benefits for humanity.
But if people have bad and clunky experiences using Bitcoin...
Then they will rarely stay around to enjoy the benefits 🙁
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Bitcoin is also global.
But people don't have a global culture.
People around the world use different symbols and units, and have different ways to use money.
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If Bitcoin is the best money, it needs to have the best user experience.
In a hyperbitcoinized world, Bitcoin needs to be accessible.
For example, visually impaired people should be able to use Bitcoin (without the screen reader reciting aloud the seed phrase! 😆 ).
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Bitcoin Design Community creates an open environment for designers (and marketers, founders etc.) to learn more about good design standards for Bitcoin applications.
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Simple and attractive UI/UX can be more accessible for users.
This in turn can reduce fear when it comes to interacting with Bitcoin apps.
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In past years, there have been a lot of scams and paranoia around Bitcoin and crypto products.
Smooth and interactive experiences can reduce this negativity and make users tell their friends about Bitcoin, which in turn will increase adoption!
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Common UX issues could be e.g.
❗ Lightning payment goes through the next day
❗ Problems scanning a QR code to make a payment
❗ Seed phrase is in a language the user doesn't understand
❗ Lightning wallet doesn't prompt a user to send larger amounts to self-custody
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Bitcoin Design Community hosts community calls and specific project calls.
The easiest way to get onboard is to join their Discord server:
discord.com/invite/K7aQ5PErht
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The community has an extensive design guide on its website.
It provides reference designs for e.g. Bitcoin wallets for specific use cases (spending wallet, savings wallet etc.), and it's great reference reading for anybody working with Bitcoin products.
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The reference designs are created with the features and goals of inclusiveness, privacy, sovereignty (self-custodial), and censorship-resistance in mind:
bitcoin.design/guide/
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The website also hosts many reference design files as Figma files that you can use as a starting point for your own project.
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Here's a presentation by Bitcoin Design Community contributor @StephenDeLorme at the @AdoptingBTC conference in El Salvador in 2022:
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Finally, @stephanlivera podcast with Christoph Ono @GBKS and Mogashni Naidoo from the Bitcoin Design Community (April 2024).
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Let's discuss it on Stacker News!
stacker.news/items/679630/r/teemupleb