AB️⚡DC

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

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