AB️⚡DC

Here are the links to what we talked about at each meeting.

April 24, 2024 TOPICS

Links

• Nunchuk Finney
• Square / Cash App conversions
• Cake wallet sending to a twitter user
• The Problem with Easy Technology
• Bitcoin core design
• Pinball user interfaces
• Unchained Mobile
• Fitt's Law
• Centering

March 27, 2024 TOPICS

Links

• Ecash by erik
• Portal device
• block MDK ui
• multivault UI
• multivault ui2
• voltage mvp
• mvp
• mvp2
• convo about design
• convo about design2
• convo about design3
• invisible ai is good ai
• jed
• tooltips
• fitts law
• creativity in video
• apple design
• worldcoin
• worldcoin2
• icon branding
• icon branding
• lightspark

February 28, 2024 TOPICS

Bitcoin updates

• Umbrel 1.0
• Sats symbol vs B
• eNuts
• Primal update, Ti worked on some animations
• Bitcoin design newsletter updates

Principles

• Proximity principle
• Case for adding friction to onboarding
• 8 tips for typography in your UI
• Interface design heuristic by lukew

Branding & details

• Ben south on taste
• Arc Search summarize interaction design

January 24, 2024 TOPICS

Updates

• NoOnes branding
• Blink onchain warning
• Phoenix liquidity bucket discussion
• BitEscrow
• Bitcoin design foundation
• River Link
• Zeus Rebrand
• Ocean mining branding
• Nostr Logos
• Stacker News has a design territory

Principles

• Will Cole's "The Invariant of Software Development"
• Aesthetic-Usability effect

September 27, 2023 TOPICS

Updates

• Plebpoet at TABconf representing Bitcoin Design
• Lexe Lightning wallet focused on 24/7 recieves
• BTCPay mobile
• Plebpoet Geyser UX research
• Nostr Design
• Anchorwatch Trident 1
• Anchorwatch Trident 2
• Anchorwatch Trident 3
• MultiKey by Multi
• Bitcoin For All: How Cash App is Redefining the World’s Relationship With Money
• eNuts Cashu wallet
• Azteco branding
• Bitcoin Design Guide update: Fees

Product & principles

• LukeW on sharing options
• Midjourney's UX
• The Tyranny of the Marginal User
• 5 proven sets of design principles and how I use them

Tools

• v0
• rapidPages

August 30, 2023 TOPICS

Opportunities

• https://bitcoinerjobs.com/
• https://www.bitcointalent.co/
• HRF bounties
• Foundry hiring a designer

Bitcoin updates

• Ti's website
• New Spiral UX Grantee
• Bitkit testing
• Airbnb on A/B testing
• Jack Mallers doing user research
• Greenlight UX
• Bitkit animation
• Stephen DeLorme designed a site
• Zaprite announcements
• Design Community updates
• Peter Todd on dark mode

Product

• Skyler on product market fit
• Skyler again
• "You have to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the tech"
• SAT vs SATS
• Airbnb storyboarding

Principles

• 4 design principles I use every day to avoid bad UX and create products that work for everyone
• Passkeys

Delightful Details

• Invisible Details of Interaction Design
• Family again
• Shopify redesign deets
• Fluid, dynamic interfaces

July 26, 2023 TOPICS

Jobs

• Bitcoin talent co
• Bitcoiner jobs
• Nostr bounties
• Lightspark senior product designer

Updates

• Bitcoin design newsletter
• AI4All hackathon
• Recent lightning self custody UX wins
• Mutiny wallet launch
• Phoenix splicing UX implications
• Bitkit update and lightning ux approach
• Anchorwatch website UI/branding update

Tools

• Webstudio
• Framer AI
• Figma, AI discussion
• Penpot on Umbrel

Principles

• Learning about good design
• Motion design principles
• Squint test
• Jared Spool: Why do user research? (Guessing)
• Everybody lies
• UX research sample size

Spicy discussion topics

• Apple marketing philosophy
• Are designers decorators?
• The best designers...
• Arc zaps "hostile to the designer's intention"
• DHH on designers coding & figma
• DHH 2
• Discussion around modern landing pages

Deets

• Cool lil case study on a Mobbin detail

June 28, 2023 TOPICS

Updates

• River Lightning Services dashboard designed by Bosch
• Strike Rebrand
• Bitkey beta launch & design decisions
• Fedi alpha launch
• Lightning terminal UI Damus zaps icon dropped, discussion
• Blockstream.info displays full decimal amounts
• Core lightning on Umbrel UI
• Lightspark case study on simplifying lightning complexities

Delightful details

• Worldcoin (scam, but beautiful app)
• Telegram motion
• Airbnb out of place (?) details
• Airbnb 2
• Fun account for unhinged ideas

Figma Config updates

• Figma announces updates + Diagram acquisition
• Genius by Diagram/Figma demo
• Config summary
• Dev mode updates in Figma

Tooling

• Arc Boosts 2.0
• Arc boosts
• Debates around Arc boosts
• Open source alternative to Webflow
• Framer AI
• Figma acquisition of Diagram and musings on AI

Learning & research

• Motion design priniciples
• Squint test
• The problem with disabled buttons
• Everybody lies; your users too
• There’s a technical name for the absence of user research: Guessing.

Apple Vision Pro

• Vision Pro
• Vision Pro resources, guidelines and inspo
• funny meme lol
• Attention to detail in Vision Pro interactions

April 27, 2023 TOPICS

Opportunities

• Bitcoin Talent Co
• Bitcoiner Jobs
• nostr bounties
• bitcoin bounties
• Block wallet product designer
• Bull Bitcoin graphic design

Updates

• Bitcoin design newsletter #42 and 43
• Lightspark Demo
• Bosch joins River
• Blockstream Green UX update
• Bitcoin product discord
• Campsite design community for sharing work

Design Tools

• Genie for Figma
• AI Studio
• Spline AI
• Rick Rubin: closing the gap between skill and taste

Product, branding

• 03-Framing is magic
• Mixpanel rebrand
• As a user, I don't want to
• Bland(?) Nokia design system

Principles

• Onboarding Tutorials vs. Contextual Help
• The Psychology Behind Loom's Explosive Growth
• Video: Common Fate principle
• Video: Figure/Ground principle

Delightful details

• Family: Wallet creation
• Family: Wallet creation unique pattern
• Family: Entering seed phrase
• Family: Modal pattern
• Family: Speed up/cancel
• Arc browser site search

March 29, 2023 TOPICS

Opportunities

• Bitcoin talent co
• Damus hire
• TBD design lead

Events

• Bitcoin Park design week

App updates

• Hodl hodl
• Specter UI updates
• Bitcoin Core GUI
• Phoenix BIP21 modal

Product, brand

• Wise brand refresh
• Lessons of design part 1
• What I learned as a product designer at Apple
• Designers use your intution
• The browser company youtube videos

AI

• Adobe AI: generate icons from sketches
• Designing in an AI world
• design systems in the time of ai
• on taste

Interface

• Every Collection
• Penpot tool
• Microinteractions and motion
• Html to design figma plugin
• 16 little UI design rules that make a big impact
• Defying physics in UX

Principles

• Common fate
• Figure/ground
• Onboarding Tutorials vs. Contextual Help
• Mood Boards in UX: How and Why to Use Them
• Common region

February 22, 2023 TOPICS

• Bitcoin Talent Co.
• Bitcoiner Jobs
• Bitrefill designer
• Bitcoin Design Newsletter 38
• Payjoin 1
• Payjoin 2
• Payjoin 3
• Payjoin 4
• Bitcoin Design Newsletter 40
• Skyler joins Fedi
• Ti makes a sick painting
• Phoenix wallet makes UX tradeoffs clear
• Casa redesign + branding
• Savings wallet history in Bitcoin Design Guide
• Principle of Common Fate
• Microinteractions
• Shaper
• @steveruizok
• Magic rename layers
• Diagram - Genius AI companion
• Galileo AI 1
• Galileo AI 2
• Bifrost: Figma to React
• PromptHunt
• Conan O'Brien Killed A Guy
• Designing in Winter

DECEMBER 28, 2022 TOPICS

• Bitcoin Design Update #33
• 10 practical tips for improving your text layout
• Bitcoin Design Update #34
• Designing a new Foundation: Spotify for Desktop
• Navigation Element checklist
• The Component Gallery
• Bitcoin Security: Volume 2
• Why Everything Looks the Same
• @linear released a new home page today
• Design polish as differential
• Linear Figma
• The Bitcoin Designathon 2022
• 7 ways to improve developer collaboration
• The Gestalt Principles for User Interface Design
• 3 Strategies for Managing Visual Complexity in Applications and Websites
• Bitcoin Design Update #35
• Designing the Perfect Button
• Not reinventing the wheel
• Layout in UI design

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022 TOPICS

• Bitcoin design hackathon
• Bitcoin Design Update #31
• Why do user research (video)
• On Creativity: My modest guide to being more creative
• AI art
• GPT3 variants
• Optimizing For Feelings
• OPEN LETTER TO MuunWallet
• Design Principles: why a design works
• Working with constraints - iPhone
• The Words We Use In Bitcoin
• Where to start with product design?
• What You Need to Know About the New Salesforce Kinetics System
• 💡Figma Tip: Stop wasting time, just steal from better color palettes.
• Losing your keys without losing your coins

JULY 27, 2022 TOPICS

• The dribbblisation of design

• Quick font pairings: Google Fonts

• Block research summarized by Skyler

• Figma Config updates

• Figma spring animations

• React-spring

• Lil' details 1

• Lil' details 2

• A product design process for the real world

• Modal vs Pages framework

• Yellows are fricking hard.

• There is no fold - LukeW

• Why does a design look good?

• What are design tokens and how to name them?

• Behind the scenes of Figma dark mode and tokens

• Github dark mode tooling

• Storybook 7.0 update

• Design systems are flawed