Bitcoin Design

We’ve just added a deep dive into SeedSigner to the Bitcoin Design Guide. This case study explores how the team transformed a hobbyist text-based interface into a modern, user-friendly signing device while staying true to its stateless, DIY philosophy. Shout-out to the @SeedSigner team: @sesi_the_man, @KeithMukai, @newtonick, @easyuxd

https://bitcoin.design/guide/case-studies/seedsigner/

Who is coming to Prague for the Freedom Tech Summit? We’re organizing another design track and we’d love to see you there. Also let us know if you’d like to do a talk or know someone who does.

https://freedomtechsummit.com/

We're starting a new series called Bitcoin Bites. Quick posts that spotlight nice design details in bitcoin apps.

Short enough to read in a minute, visual enough to get the point right away.

Here's the first one. Featuring some highlights from Family, Bitkey and Sovran.

https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/bitcoin-bites-1

We close out the year with an invitation:

Bring your design energy to bitcoin—and earn creative freedom.

Browse our 2026 Impact Initiatives—guideposts to the areas we think are most worthy of the best designers in the world.

Most worthy of, you.

https://bitcoin.design/projects/

The latest newsletter is out. Come join our Friday call to brainstorm design project ideas for 2026. https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/bitcoin-design-newsletter-81

We just published a review of Presidio Bitcoin Design Week. Take a peek at what happened during 5 days of bitcoin & design in San Francisco at Presidio Bitcoin.

https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/presidio-bitcoin-design-week

🚀 Day 1 of Presidio Bitcoin Design Week is in the books! Just kicked off 5 incredible days of talks, debates & design exercises. The energy in the room was amazing and we're just getting started! 🧡 #BitcoinDesign #Bitcoin

Last night's theme: "The people we build for" 👥 We dove deep into how money works today, who it serves (and who it doesn't), and how bitcoin can build a better future for everyone.

This evening set the stage for an incredible week ahead! The audience were very engaged asking questions and adding information. Onwards to Day 2!

See the full agenda here: https://event.bitcoin.design

Speaker announcement

, founder of moneydevkit & former LN payments infrastructure lead at Block, will give a talk on the evening of 9/16 making the case that bitcoin, not stables, are the future of digital payments.

Followed by debate & discussion.

Join us 👇

RSVP to attend the Tuesday 9/16 evening session here:

https://lu.ma/knpgd19x

See the full agenda for Bitcoin Design Week here:

https://event.bitcoin.design/#agenda

Very excited that Kyle Fletcher, Head of Brand Creative at Cash App, will be joining us for Bitcoin Design Week

On 9/18 Kyle will give a keynote on "Cash App Brand Design & lessons it may hold for branding bitcoin"

We can't wait!

Apply to attend the Thursday 9/18 Deep Dive Session here:

https://tally.so/r/wapdNZ

See the full agenda for Bitcoin Design Week here:

https://event.bitcoin.design/#agenda

Silicon Valley—help us DESIGN FUTURE MONEY

Announcing Bitcoin Design Week @ Presidio Bitcoin on Sept 15-19

We’re inviting Silicon Valley-based product designers to join us for a week of free events to learn about—and shape—the future of bitcoin this fall.

RSVP or Apply to attend below:

https://event.bitcoin.design/

Kicking off.

BTC Prague dev/hack/day is today. Hope you see you around. https://btcprague.com/dev-hack-day/

Here's the schedule for the users track at @BTCPrague dev/hack/day, coming up next week on June 18.

We have a call with and about

coming up in a few hours. Join us. https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/804

The latest newsletter is out. Published via Nostr (thanks to Yakihonne). Check out what has been happening in the community. https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzprpfkvsapu7xzdpcst4yjc37s3m3dyxdq4nwgzus7z896dpnd24qqq24zcjgdfqhqafhwek4jjr62ueykj65dexhzv8dc8x

Do you enjoy refreshing time locks with Payjoins? No clue what that means but interested in keeping bitcoin secure and design? Join our call today at 14:00 UTC. https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/803 https://blossom.primal.net/a9c6e4f998f02aed20b6b1160a23e243d60e706913dbfe0d385018d6831fd67e.png

Congrats to Arcana Seed Lodge for taking home the best design prize at the Bitcoin 2025 hackathon. They stood out with a unique concept and execution, mashing up seed phrases, a story-driven experience, pixel art, and personal location-based memories. https://devpost.com/software/arcana-seed-lodge

Make sure to check out all the other projects here: https://b25.devpost.com/project-gallery

The prize was sponsored by the Bitcoin Design Foundation: https://bitcoindesignfoundation.org

We'd like to give another round of shout-outs to the winners of our second Designathon, and thank everyone who participated, sponsored, judged, organized, and other wise helped make the event happen.

🧵⬇️

We just wrapped up the second Designathon!

120+ participants explored new ideas, sprinted through UX challenges, and dug into accessibility, and so much more.

Catch the full recap here:

https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/the-bitcoin-designathon-2

Presentation Round 2 starts at 15:00 UTC!

Hop in for the next set of project demos and feedback. Presenters, have your projects ready! Everyone else, tune in to celebrate the community’s creativity.

A huge thank you to our sponsors for powering the Bitcoin Designathon! Thank you for giving us the resources to create, design, collaborate, and innovate for the last 2 weeks.

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day! Join us on for four accessibility-focused sessions at the Bitcoin Designathon.

• 13:00 UTC – Workshop: Intro to Disability Use Cases, Assistive Technologies & Universal Design • 15:00 UTC – Office Hours: Swing by with your accessibility questions • 19:00 UTC – Workshop: Accessibility Testing, Tools & Design Pattern Resources • 21:00 UTC – Office Hours: More time for your accessibility Qs

Let’s make Bitcoin design accessible—see you there!

https://event.bitcoin.design

We’re pleased to welcome Basak as a judge for the Bitcoin Designathon!

They currently lead Design & Research at Blockstream, and previously guided teams at Microsoft, SoundCloud, InVision and Foursquare.

Welcome aboard, Basak!

We’re pleased to welcome

as a judge for the Bitcoin Designathon!

From copywriting to design to community building, he’s been with

since day one. These days he’s running events at Bitspace and contributing to the Bitcoin Design Community.

Today, the Austin Bitcoin Design Club will host a live critique of 2–3 Designathon projects. Tune in for feedback and community insights. Thanks to ABDC for running this!

Link to call details + time:

https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-park-austin/events/306401216/

https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/797

Welcome

as a Bitcoin Designathon judge!

Johns is Founder & Art Director of Peak Shift. He has lead branding, product, and design initiatives across the bitcoin space. Johns helped inspire the first Designathon with his masterful bolt.fun hackathon initiatives.

Welcome aboard, Johns!

6 days left until submissions close for the Bitcoin Designathon! Final deadline: Saturday, May 17 at midnight UTC. As we close in on the last week, let’s keep the momentum going!

https://event.bitcoin.design

May 15th is Accessibility Day at the Bitcoin Designathon. In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day we’re hosting two workshops.

Join our workshop on disability use cases, assistive technologies, and more at either 13:00 UTC or 19:00 UTC.

Let’s make Bitcoin accessible!

https://event.bitcoin.design

We’re thrilled to welcome Tom Badley as a judge for the ecash Design-a-Note Contest!

Tom literally wrote the book on the art and design of money (https://tombadley.net/product/artandmoney_hb/). He’s responsible for the stunning Offline Cash notes and the Bitcoin Magazine Bukele Buck.

🌐 Checkout his work: http://tombadley.net 🎙️ Listen to his journey: https://jwp.news/002-tom-badley-offline-cash/

Jason, John, and V shared some great insights and accessibility resources for designers and developers yesterday. Links are in the description.

We're on day 3 of the Designathon and it's still a great time to join the action. In about an hour (15:00 UTC), we'll host a UX research workshop, and a little later (17:00 UTC) one about accessibility. You're welcome to join.

https://event.bitcoin.design

It is Designathon kick-off day and we've got one more sponsor update. Big thanks to the crew from the Here Comes Bitcoin Store for providing swag. https://herecomesbitcoin.store

To see the updated prizes, check out the event site: https://event.bitcoin.design/#prizes

Exciting news, Blockstream is going to sponsor the Designathon. They do so much for bitcoin, and we are super thankful that they are supporting the event as well. Now let's get together and push bitcoin forward. Kick-off is Sunday.

https://blockstream.com

For all the details, check the event site:

https://event.bitcoin.design

Another shout-out to Plan₿ Network, Designathon sponsor, and purveyor of excellent bitcoin education courses for many different topics (and languages). Have you already checked out their offerings? https://planb.network/en

We are incredibly excited to announce that Plan₿ Network is going to sponsor the accessibility track of the Designathon. Thank you for helping break down barriers 🙏💪🪩

Accessibility is about making things truly work for all of us, across all of our different needs (and wants). We'd love to see projects dive in and make a difference in this area.

More info, including scheduled accessibility workshops, on the event site. https://event.bitcoin.design

The Bitcoin Design Community Newsletter is live.

This time with the:

1. Designathon kicking off this Sunday
2. First ever Hackathon at Presidio in SF

And a bunch of Job Opportunities as well as how you can use AI and the Bitcoin Design Guide to review your designs.

https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/designathon-time-bitcoin-design-newsletter

Thanks to

for organizing the ecash workshop, and putting together these animations. Prepping for the Designathon is a whole creative project in itself. https://event.bitcoin.design

It's coming up. Are you ready? Kick-off is Sunday. http://event.bitcoin.design

Looking for workshops? We're organizing several during the Designathon for UX research, accessibility, ecash, Penpot, and more. https://event.bitcoin.design/#schedule

11 days to the Designathon. We'd love to have you join and spread your creative wings. If you work on a bitcoin project, this is also a great opportunity to spark design-related collaborations. http://event.bitcoin.design

You can now register your project for the Bitcoin Designathon. Come join us, we'd love to see you explore your creative ideas. https://event.bitcoin.design/#projects

The Bitcoin Design Foundation sponsors the top prize for the Designathon. Working tirelessly to make bitcoin more usable for more people. https://bitcoindesignfoundation.org

More info about the Designathon on Bitcoin News. https://bitcoinnews.com/press-release/designathon-2025-designing-bitcoins-future/

What would you like to tinker on during the Designathon? Some ideas so far are crowdfunding with silent payments, proof-of-brush, a donations directory, and social adoption through shared expenses. https://event.bitcoin.design

Got a feature you’d love to see designed? Or an idea you’ve been sitting on that deserves to exist? Share it. These ideas will help others form teams and build cool stuff during the Designathon. https://event.bitcoin.design/#ideas

The latest version of the newsletter is live, enjoy reading this summarized version of what’s going on in and around the community. https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/bitcoin-design-newsletter-73

Thank you to OpenCash (https://opencash.dev) for being our first Designathon sponsor. They are supporting the design contest for ecash paper notes. More info here: https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/759

Project ideas bubbling up for the Designathon? You can now submit them via the event website. https://event.bitcoin.design/#ideas

Designers, it’s time. Sign up for the Bitcoin Designathon 2025. Join us! https://event.bitcoin.design

Signups are live for the Designathon. More details will be added to the site next week. Hop on in. https://event.bitcoin.design

There are 8 design projects in this years Summer of Bitcoin program (more than in previous years). Shout-out to everyone participating, and best of luck to all the students who are working on their proposals now. https://www.summerofbitcoin.org/organizations

Let us know if you'll be at BTC Prague this year. Any topics you'd love to hear about at the dev/hack/day?

https://btcprague.com/dev-hack-day/

We're organizing another Designathon, from May 4-18. Let's get creative with bitcoin together. More to come very soon.

The Bitcoin Design Newsletter #72 is live. A quick read on catch-up on the activities in around the Bitcoin Design Community. This months issue is packed with job opportunities, community events for 2025 and an update on the Open Design Guide. https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/bitcoin-design-newsletter-72

Our event listing for Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 16 is live. Will you join us? https://accessibility.day/events/

And here's our own planning issue: https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/753

If you missed our design review with the

team about Lana and bitcoin-backed loans, here's the recording.

Coming up in 3 hours ⏰

In our design review call on Thursday, we'll speak with the

team about Lana, their new platform for bitcoin loans. Get all the call details here (including slide deck and podcast link): https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/758

got a nice write-up in Lightning news. Have you tried it yet? https://lightning.news/saving-satoshi-sci-fi-merges-with-bitcoin/

🙏 Big thanks to the Proton Wallet for sharing insight into their design process and answering our questions about bitcoin-via-email, user feedback, and more.

Have you tried the product? What do you think?

We're supporting the design track for Summer of Bitcoin again. If your project would like to support a student, or if you're a designer and would like to mentor, reach out. https://image.nostr.build/ac5ba345d17230402963f2f7439d55be5296f0b813abe70843e4bc3c5fa2c9e3.jpg

This Thursday at 15:00 UTC, we'll spend an hour with the

team to learn about their product and design process. Join us.

https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/757

We put together a program for a self-guided 4-week Bitcoin & Design Learning Bootcamp. We created it for Summer of Bitcoin, but decided to also make it publicly available for anyone interested in a more guided learning experience.

https://bitcoin.design/guide/resources/learning-bootcamp/

Every week includes reading material and a challenge, starting with the basics and then moving to more and more advanced topics.

It's new, so it can probably be improved. Let us know what feedback you have. Thanks in advance.

Check out the latest newsletter with bits about Summer of Bitcoin, Bitsacco, Proton Wallet, Bitcoin Keeper, Breez and many more. https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/bitcoin-design-newsletter-71

Summer of Bitcoin applications are open. http://summerofbitcoin.org https://image.nostr.build/cc742bc3a4d96e49b6bc6dd1deaf951122bd5e9283e4c6e792ebf0ec89674b74.jpg

The latest newsletter, and the first one for this year, is out. Get it while it's fresh. https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/bitcoin-design-newsletter-70

Applications for Summer of Bitcoin 2025 will open on February 1. Will you join? https://www.summerofbitcoin.org

The latest (and last for 2024) newsletter is out. Take a peek. https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/bitcoin-design-newsletter-69

The final page of the Inheritance Wallet reference design is now live. It covers succession and transfer of funds, maybe the most crucial moment in this use case. Shout-out to

for completing this massive reference design. https://bitcoin.design/guide/inheritance-wallet/succession/

These are the four fellows taking part in the Bitshala design fellowship, and the projects they will be contributing to. Very diverse projects covering merchant software, Bip 353 Human Readable Addresses, Ecash/Lightning/Nostr, and this very design community.

Sanya will support the BTCPay team, partnering with Pav and Dstrukt. It’s a big project, so there is always a lot of design work that needs to be done, from fixing UX issue, to designing case studies, and tackling new features. http://btcpayserver.org

Deeksha is joining TwelveCash, working with Stephen to design for a long list of planned upcoming features for managing and pushing adoption of bitcoin usernames (aka BIP 353 Human Readable Addresses). http://twelve.cash

Sushant is helping Sovran, the Cashu and Lightning Wallet (+ nostr integration), to improve the application and balance it both being easy-to-use and feature-rich. @Erik https://sovranbitcoin.com

Paperpsych will help the Bitcoin Design Community & Foundation with various activities, such as organizing the next Designathon, reviewing Bitcoin Design Guide PRs, writing the newsletter, and more. http://bitcoin.design

🙏 Huge thank you’s to everyone for making this fellowship happen and spending your time and energy helping make bitcoin better. https://image.nostr.build/a0b25bcedec6129bbc1ac3030ed80254514b0ef7daefbe89fbf748038c945b65.jpg

🍃 Calling South American UX Designers ✨ Are you ready to revolutionize the world of finance through UX design? 💫 This is your chance to make a real impact in the world of Bitcoin and beyond! 🌎 Start Your Journey To Becoming A UX Designer In The Bitcoin Industry

🎯 We're offering 10 promising UX designers an unparalleled opportunity: 🎁 Attend the BTC++ Conference 2025 for FREE 🎟️ Participate in an intensive 2-day UX training bootcamp 💡 Immerse yourself in the Bitcoin ecosystem and be exposed to career opportunities 🌟 https://image.nostr.build/4e787d58d75e8f125fc5de399459a82c85cff5a4e1fe06c32e047bb5d6258ef5.jpg

The first

Design Fellowship has kicked off, complementing the existing program for developers. This collaboration with Bitcoin Design allows for 4 fellows to contribute as designers for 6 months to specific projects. Stay tuned for details, for now, we’d just like to say a big thank you to everyone involved in making this happen. https://image.nostr.build/380de70558c34dd0295eea4274654dea003dc5b11120928811614d55206e93d6.jpg

⚽ It’s kicked off! Today the first ever Bitcoin UX Bootcamp right in Kenya. Today 10 African UX designers sat together and had a journey of learning and collaboration

🌟 We learnt about UX Design Principles specific to Bitcoin, UX research, Bitcoin Development philosophy. Next to that students got hands on doing desk research and each group is assigned to an African Bitcoin wallet which they will be conducting usability testing on.

🍃 Thank you to Femi for the presentation about Bitcoin Development philosophy and to CK for always showing up and connecting with the students. Thank you Marcel for the support in operations and logistics.

Also to Mark for the help with setting up the usability testing structure which the students will be doing on 5 African built wallets.

A big thank you to HRF for supporting this initiative. Many resources from the Bitcoin Design Community have been used in the bootcamp such as the Bitcoin Design Guide, Open Design Guide & UX Research toolkit.

🌟Last but not least to the students, without you this would not be possible.

Super inspiring to see all of these people making Africa shine. https://image.nostr.build/dde8d645263e25d0f1dbd2dcbe4b57ecdeeb61e25da026d2c7fc9cb8d56fb007.jpg

Another new page in the Bitcoin Design Guide by

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. His epic inheritance wallet reference design now covers making changes to existing wallet setups. If it looks complicated, take a look at the overview page first. https://bitcoin.design/guide/inheritance-wallet/making-changes/

👏🏽 Let us give a round of applause to these 10 ladies and gentleman. These 10 talented UX designers will join us in the first ever Bitcoin UX Bootcamp in Africa. ⚽ Kicking off in just 3 days they will put their skills to the test as they up skill their knowledge and learn UX design for Bitcoin. 🌟 Meet Wandia, Oladimeji, Olayinka, Elizabeth, Afolabi, Flora, Loïc, Brenda, Williams and Adeyemi 🍃 We believe in all of you and looking forward to seeing you all shine. Lets go Africa! https://image.nostr.build/ad4387b75b14a58509034b11d51decad835c45675a22ed85210dba62a230a284.jpg

A brand-new ecash section just went live in the Bitcoin Design Guide, courtesy of

. It covers all the basics, and dives into Casu & Fedimint, as well as best practices for design. Take a look. https://bitcoin.design/guide/how-it-works/ecash/introduction/

This week, the first ever Bitcoin UX Bootcamp is happening in Africa. 🔥🔥🔥

10 talented UX designers from Africa will learn & get hands on by doing UX research on wallets. We will then bring this data about these user experiences back to the ecosystem.

Builders of these wallets can then improve them and make data driven iterations to the designs to improve the user experience.

We’re also thrilled to announce that the next edition already has a confirmed location: Brazil! 🇧🇷 To all UX designers in South America eager to learn and connect with the Bitcoin industry, stay tuned, we’ll be sharing more details in the coming days! https://image.nostr.build/2a53ec2e848e1724ab8b5453f12391bf2af4b4546daf6cdfe78a01aaa0bc59db.png

🪴 Today at 12:00 UTC we will watch live as the next generation of Bitcoin Designers onboard themselves into an exciting learning path leading up to the first ever Bitcoin UX Bootcamp 2024. 📺 10 talents African UX designers will be learning in public 🏘️ It's all happening in the Bitcoin Design Community 👉🏽 They will be reading through the Bitcoin Design Guide - Getting started section and learning the foundational knowledge to support them as UX designers. https://image.nostr.build/4949c57a636a01c228e120db68d0bccb41eb55bfd321d6c4db5b77101d4679b8.jpg

Learn about how Silent Payments work in this new page in the Bitcoin Design Guide, courtesy of

. https://bitcoin.design/guide/how-it-works/silent-payments/

The latest newsletter is out, including news about the UX bootcamp at ABC Conference, Bitcoin Design Foundation Q3 report, Guide updates, and more. https://bitcoindesign.substack.com/p/bitcoin-design-newsletter-67

3 calls coming up in the next 3 days in the community. Come and hop in and join in on sharing your ideas and contributing to projects within the ecosystem that are building in public. https://bitcoin.design https://image.nostr.build/b3f158a735448115d4c82cf98b88da6a67c27a30a0737272c71b7d31a3d3c0ce.jpg

A new page of the Inheritance Wallet reference design in the Bitcoin Design Guide is now live. It covers the onboarding flow for co-signers. Take a look. https://bitcoin.design/guide/inheritance-wallet/onboarding-cosigners/