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Christoph Ono

@GBKS

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Helping improve bitcoin design with many others at & Bitcoin Design Foundation. I write a weekly update at

Munich, Germany
Joined April 2007
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@GBKS
Christoph Ono
3 years
While doing UI explorations, I started wondering if we can get away with not mentioning the term Lightning whatsoever? As a user, my need is not to “use Lightning”. What I want are instant, cheap payments to pay for things hassle-free.
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My fully validating, pruned node is now synced. Love it. Took 9 days on a 2+ year old Android.
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Glad I’m not attending. If I had plans, I’d cancel them. Not interested in corrupt authoritarians. Bitcoin is a peaceful revolution.
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Bitcoin Magazine
18 days
OFFICIAL: 🇺🇸 DONALD TRUMP TO SPEAK AT THE WORLD'S LARGEST #BITCOIN CONFERENCE THIS MONTH!
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3 years
While testing Lightning wallets, I had routing issues and encountered some unhelpful error screens. Pretty important to communicate well in these moments and help users get over the problem. Builds trust and confidence and lets people do what they came for.
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1 year
Bitcoin pop-up space at a Munich mall. Amazing initiative by @BitcoinMunich .
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10 months
Seeing lots of tiny fonts and tight spacing when exchanges, wallets, etc ask me to verify addresses. Making this bigger is an easy fix that can lead to fewer mistakes and eye strain, but might lower sales of magnifying glasses.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
Here's a Figma community file with various #bitcoin hardware device outline illustrations. I created them for the wallet UI kit and design guide and thought they might be useful for others. Anything missing?
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Christoph Ono
3 years
Still a lot to do on the Bitcoin icon set, but making good progress. A dedicated site for it is coming soon. @bitcoin_design @_Bosch_
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3 years
A bird's eye view of . Lots getting done, lots to do.
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Christoph Ono
3 months
Can wallets not warn people about these address poisoning attacks? Seems like a simple pattern to detect. Something like this...?
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Christoph Ono
4 years
Quick concept mock-up of a bitcoin node that runs in the background and only does things when my computer is idle. It would just need a small widget to check the status and maybe toggle the sync mode.
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@GBKS
Christoph Ono
7 years
@pieratt I just started helping the Monero team with design for their wallet (total WIP). Crypto peepz really like the dark themes.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
Having way too much fun messing with this concept. Thanks for all the feedback on the first post (probably a million things wrong still).
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Christoph Ono
3 years
The #bitcoin icon set was updated with 31 new icons, the new version is 0.1.8. @_Bosch_ @bitcoin_design
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Christoph Ono
11 years
iOS 7 (50%) has overtaken iOS 6 (46%) in barely 3 days. Crazy.
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Christoph Ono
2 years
1 or 2?
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Christoph Ono
2 years
I've now had the privilege of doing bitcoin design full-time for 2 years. Major thanks to @spiralbtc and all the lovely peeps in @bitcoin_design and beyond for not only making it possible, but also making it super interesting and fun. Here's to more good times and even better UX.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
Mega thanks to @spiralbtc for the gracious support. Can't wait to see what the @bitcoin_design community will make happen this year.
@spiralbtc
Spiral
3 years
We are once again (again) renewing Christoph Ono’s ( @GBKS ) grant. No one has done more to grow the Bitcoin Design Community ( @bitcoin_design ) from nebulous hunch with 0 followers to 2,410 person Slack channel with an anthropomorphic cyclops cake avatar.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
The #Bitcoin Wallet UI Kit now has its own landing page. The kit is meant to speed up design by providing a solid foundation with many best practices baked in. Needs a lot of love, but I think it's pretty useful already.
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Christoph Ono
1 year
@OKIN_17 @440UrPp Heads up, it is experimental. Feedback highly appreciated.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
I'm working on a Bitcoin Wallet UI Kit (a Figma community file) for anyone to freely use. Major work-in-progress, contributors welcome to make it as useful as possible. Here's an overview of the project. #opendesign
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Christoph Ono
6 months
I am super thankful to the Spiral crew for their continued support and being able to chip in to open-source bitcoin design. It really means a lot. Thank you!
@spiralbtc
Spiral
6 months
If you're not already familiar with @GBKS , you might be someone who supports bitcoin without contributing to it. Christoph, maybe the most dedicated designer in bitcoin, now also helps steer the Bitcoin Design Foundation, a grant program similar to ours.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
Header graphic for an upcoming page about Units & Symbols in the @bitcoin_design guide. Just a number, but still a good amount of complexity here due to the many different international standards for formatting units, and the unintuitive 8 digits of bitcoin, subunits, etc.
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Christoph Ono
3 months
Some quick concept explorations with @chris_lueders_ around beefing up the visual expression of @MutinyWallet . Would you use it?
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Christoph Ono
5 years
Moved all my Monero Sketch files now officially into a single Figma file that you can freely duplicate and mess with. If you want to help out, maybe take a look at the account dashboard and merchant page and make them better.
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Christoph Ono
1 month
Quick mock-up of lightning liquidity visual from a conversation in the @bitcoin_design Discord. Avoiding the terms liquidity, inbound, outbound, etc.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
There have been several discussions in @bitcoin_design about wallet home screens, triggered by concerns about exposing balances to bystanders (). There's a lot more than can be done than the default balance + transaction list.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
The #Bitcoin UI Kit @figmadesign community file now has over 1,000 duplications. If you've used it for your designs or have ideas for improvement, I'd love to hear about it.
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Christoph Ono
9 months
HODL streaks! Having fun with this little character on a @duolingo style feature idea to make users feel good about saving.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
The #Bitcoin icon set now has convenient Vue and React modules. See the Github readme for how-tos. Big thanks to @JohnCantrell97 @StephenDeLorme and @_Bosch_ .
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Christoph Ono
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Christoph Ono
2 years
We just had a workshop with an introduction to the Bitcoin UI Kit. If you're looking for a Figma UI library to kickstart a #bitcoin application design, it's made for you. #designathon
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Christoph Ono
6 months
We refreshed the website of the Bitcoin Design Foundation (we only had a placeholder previously). Let me know what you think.
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Christoph Ono
17 days
@_rileyio @TheBitcoinConf Thanks for your response. Sounds generally like a good idea. For me it's just that this particular candidate does not fall into the boundaries of acceptable and productive political discourse for me. And everyone can have their own opinion on that.
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Christoph Ono
2 years
"Designing bitcoin products is fun!" Excellent post by @himanshugoel005 about the design work by him and the other @summerofbitcoin students for @padawanwallet . I really like the UI they came up with.
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Christoph Ono
4 years
Super excited to have the opportunity to continue working on Bitcoin design. Thank you! 🥳🎉✨💯
@spiralbtc
Spiral
4 years
We’re renewing Christoph Ono’s ( @GBKS ) six-month grant and making it a one-year grant. You might know Christoph from , where he can be found responding to hundreds of slacks a day, half of which are just me explaining why something is going to be late.
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Christoph Ono
4 years
I'm super excited about this. Big thanks to @sqcrypto . Can't wait to see what the bitcoin design community will create, I'll do my best to help and support. There's already a really good group of people in Slack, you're welcome to join:
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Spiral
4 years
Our first Square Crypto Design Grant goes to Christoph Ono ( @GBKS ). Christoph will bring structure (albeit the decentralized kind) to the bitcoin design community that we announced last week. As of this tweet, that community has 292 members on Slack. Good luck, buddy 🤣
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Christoph Ono
3 months
Result of a Bitaxe workshop yesterday organized by @ClueWant and @bitcoinmuc . Highly recommend it. Time to do a little bit of hashing now…
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Christoph Ono
3 years
Working on a flow diagram for Lightning "Send bitcoin" user flows. Lots of entry points (QR code, link...) and formats (invoice, LN address...) make this pretty intricate.
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Christoph Ono
23 days
It's a little tricky to tame the various payment request formats in receive screens into a coherent experience, they are just so different. Here's a rough stab at it.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
I set up a newsletter to better document my design contributions to open-source Bitcoin. I try to work in public as much as possible, but things are pretty scattered, so this will be the place that ties it all together. “👋🌍”
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Christoph Ono
1 year
A nice Friday afternoon surprise was that my PR with accessibility fixes for @bluewalletio got merged, the changes will hopefully help a few people with low vision better find their way around and handle their bitcoin.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
The Bitcoin UI Kit site now has a (still WiP) screen browser. Designs are no longer just in Figma, they are now also in our beloved web format with deep-links and all. You can look at single screens, full user flows, even search text inside the designs.
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Christoph Ono
6 years
Pretty cool to see my (slightly modified) design here. But makes sense, Haven is a fork of Monero and so also inherits the wallet design. Didn’t even think about that before. $XMR $XHV
@notsofast
notsofast
6 years
Taking a test trip offshore. $XHV $XHVD @HavenProtocol
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Christoph Ono
1 month
I re-recorded my talk "Building the right thing" from @BTCPrague dev/hack/day design track. It's really just a series of loose thoughts and questions around scaling and adoption and finding something impactful to work on. Hope it's interesting.
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Christoph Ono
8 months
This page was really intricate to work on. Trickiest part was finding the right balance of keeping wallets separate vs combining them, especially when it comes to keys. What simplified this was starting with a clear use case.
@bitcoin_design
Bitcoin Design Community
8 months
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.
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Christoph Ono
9 months
How hard should we push people towards proper security measures? Do nothing? Keep it subtle and rely on them to "get it"? Or be super intense and in their faces about it and induce anxiety?
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Christoph Ono
2 years
The new Contacts page is live in the @bitcoin_design Guide. Sounds like a simple feature, but it's fairly intricate due to the many different technical standards for payment requests that exist across #Bitcoin and #Lightning .
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Christoph Ono
4 years
@dburka Because they don't like reading text. They like text to work as a visual, compositional element, like a shape or texture. That's easier if you make it very small or very large (at least that's my totally generalized theory, haha).
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Christoph Ono
2 years
Had a blast at @Offscript9 last week. So many friendly and interesting people in one place. Here we discussed the UX of key management, recovery phrases, etc. Feeling very lucky to get to do this.
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Christoph Ono
1 year
@bluewalletio Thanks. I'll try #2 and ask my son if he can pay for my fees.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
The "Sending bitcoin" page in the design guide got updated with lots of Lightning-related UX details. Such a good design challenge to sort through all the details. Hope it's useful.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
A short work-in-progress update on the dark mode in the #Bitcoin UI Kit using @figmadesign with the Lights plugin by @jsngr . 🌗
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Christoph Ono
3 years
Some work-in-progress visuals to help explain aspects of the Lightning network. Fun to do, but hard to get them to communicate clearly.
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Christoph Ono
4 years
The Magical Crypto Conference VR edition is today and tomorrow. @SeleneJin , @patestevao , @johnsBeharry , @danielnordh and I will speak in a panel about bitcoin and design at 3:05pm EDT today. Swing by if you are around. #MCCVR2020
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Christoph Ono
1 year
The messy part of design discovery where nothing is precious and you don't really know yet what the best solution looks like.
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Christoph Ono
2 years
Being able to finish a task/project is super important. The last 20% can be really tedious and always take longer than expected, but they make all the difference.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
The "Protecting a wallet" page in the Bitcoin Design Guide got a refresh with more ways to keep users on top of good security and privacy. A super deep topic of which this page covers a sub-set of UI approaches.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
Very excited to represent the Bitcoin design community at Figma config on April 21 with @johnsBeharry .
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Christoph Ono
2 years
Exploring approaches to a first-use experience for a lightning wallet (). Take people through everything upfront, or ask them later in context? One is more explicit (builds confidence?), the other is less friction.
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Christoph Ono
5 months
I'd love to see more designers help mentor in the @summerofbitcoin program. Happy to answer questions if this sounds remotely interesting.
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Christoph Ono
1 year
Thank you so much. Let's keep at it.
@spiralbtc
Spiral
1 year
It’s a grant renewal kind of week. #1 goes to Christoph Ono ( @GBKS ), which is really #4 for him. He’s done as much as anyone to polish and promote bitcoin by improving UX and educating newcomers, devs, and other designers. Here’s our attempt to capture everything he works on:
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Christoph Ono
3 years
@fiatjaf That's tricky, but still possible to provide some general guidance, even if only support links. Worst thing is to leave the user with nothing. With the problem I had, only re-installing the app fixed it (guessing the LSP had stopped advertising routes to my node).
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Christoph Ono
3 months
Working on wrapping up some animations for (will be rendered via Lottie).
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Christoph Ono
2 years
Party time! Saving Satoshi won the design prize in the Global Adoption Track of @boltfun_btc Legends of Lightning. Major congrats to all the teams, and thank you to @johnsBeharry and @zapp_ed for organizing such a fantastic event.
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Christoph Ono
1 year
@caiovmf Heads up, it is experimental. Feedback highly appreciated.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
Snapshot of a work-in-progress update to the prototype in the multi-key case study of the Bitcoin Design Guide. @bitcoin_design
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Christoph Ono
9 years
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Christoph Ono
1 year
I'm super excited about @BitcoinMunich starting next week, a 2-week pop-up space in a Munich mall, all about bitcoin. Talks, workshops, café, shop, art, and a great local (and not-local) community supporting it all.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
The first version of the Units & Symbols page is live. It summarizes considerations for formatting #bitcoin amounts. There were some opinionated responses to my last post about this, the term “dot maximalism” even come up (it was jokingly… right?). 1/3
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Christoph Ono
10 months
Just going to hang out this weekend and watch blocks tick away.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
If wallets only show users the transaction data stored on the block chain, it's hard to make sense of it. With a few extra options, it becomes much clearer and easier to manage your finances. #Bitcoin
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Christoph Ono
4 years
Some explorations of merchant invoice screens, looking at information density, visual hierarchy and make it easy for users to pay the way that works best for them. Nothing settled, just sharing ideas for fun. @pavlenex
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Christoph Ono
2 years
New page is live in the design guide - "Sign in with bitcoin". It's a basic overview of what some lightning wallets and services are doing to faciliate authentication and payments. Hope we can add lots more to this over time.
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Christoph Ono
6 years
Explore Monero is now available in 6 languages, all thanks to Monero community members donating their time and providing localizations (thank you). Hungarian was added today. #monero $xmr
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Christoph Ono
1 year
We just had our second call around porting the Bitcoin UI Kit to @penpotapp . One week in, the group is making really good progress, while naturally bumping into all kinds of things to sort out. I'm excited to see where we'll end up. @HRF
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Christoph Ono
3 years
How minimal could a #bitcoin signing device be?
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Christoph Ono
9 months
Chapter 4 is live for Saving Satoshi, where you learn how to write code for deriving an address from a private key. The team is already busy with chapters 5 (message verification) and 6 (constructing transactions). @savingsatoshi @boltfun_btc
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Christoph Ono
4 months
Nice! Some screens from the Bitcoin UI Kit (via the @bitcoin_design Guide) made it into the third edition of Mastering Bitcoin.
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Christoph Ono
1 year
Image generation is pure magic. Some images from today for Saving Satoshi. It requires a lot of finessing, combining multiple techniques and programs, hands-on editing and clear ideas for characters, settings, composition, etc if you want to tell a story. Still magic.
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Christoph Ono
1 year
"Close button or logo" is the new "hotdogs or legs".
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Christoph Ono
1 year
A new page in the @bitcoin_design guide is live, describing the UI pattern of a wallet selector. When starting a payment in one app and finishing in another, you usually want to decide which one to use.
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Christoph Ono
4 years
Very excited to see what Jamaal will dig up.
@spiralbtc
Spiral
4 years
Our next designer grant is also our first research grant and it goes to Jamaal Montasser’s Project Horizon (not to be confused with our own ill-advised Project Event Horizon). PH’s goal is to deepen our understanding of the people using (and not using) the Bitcoin Core wallet.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
What he said.
@pavlenex
Pavlenex
3 years
If you're building a #Bitcoin product and have a concrete UI/UX concern, go to @bitcoin_design Slack, and spam with questions. A welcoming community of nearly 2000 designers, ux/ui experts is more than happy to help you out.
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Christoph Ono
2 years
If you haven't checked it out yet, @fosdem , the open-source conference is coming up this weekend. It's free and there's a whole track on open-design. @johnsBeharry and I will be on Saturday at 11:10 UTC, representing @bitcoin_design .
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Christoph Ono
3 months
Speed up your design work. No need to start with a blank slate when you have resources like the UI Kit.
@chris_lueders_
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🚀 I'm launching a new video tutorial series focused on the #Bitcoin UI Kit by @bitcoin_design , a must-have resource for people in the space. Join me as I delve into its features:
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2 years
Seems like a logical design direction for a bitcoin wallet 😉.
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Christoph Ono
9 years
The #TYPO3Neos community is super tight and talented. Very impressed with this weeks experience at the code sprint and #inspiringcon .
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Christoph Ono
5 years
New Monero wallet is out with better onboarding and lots of usability improvements, and the hard fork went smoothly. About 80 people in the Monero community helped make this happen, from coding, translations, etc. 😀
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Christoph Ono
4 months
Finally got this pull request out for a new page in the @bitcoin_design guide around human readable addresses. As anything with bitcoin, it gets more intricate the closer you look, so I'm expecting lots of feedback (which I appreciate).
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Christoph Ono
8 years
So much ranting about Apple. You know what, they work super hard on their stuff and try to make good choices that move us forward. #respect
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Christoph Ono
2 months
Following up on my complaining yesterday, here's an overview of common accessibility issues we identified in testing.
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Christoph Ono
10 days
Just had a super nice conversation with the Open Design workgroup at Canonical ( @ubuntu ). Open design is still such a raw idea, I hope we can refine it and make it a common practice for designers/projects/companies.
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Christoph Ono
3 years
Sad to see, wish those products had become a success. My Casa Node still runs, but I set up a @getumbrel a few months ago and it's a great replacement and upgrade.
@CasaHODL
Casa
3 years
Update: We’ll be fully winding down support for our old products (Sats App + Casa Node) later this year. Are you a Sats/Node user? Check out this post for everything you need to know:
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Christoph Ono
2 years
Screen mockups in the daily spending wallet reference design in the @bitcoin_design guide. Currently reviewing for consistency 🧐 so they turn into a nice interactive prototype.
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Christoph Ono
3 months
The creative expression scale is a helpful framework for these things. What is the most expressive version of your brand and what is the most minimal? Sometimes it's about the vibe, sometimes it's about getting things done.
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Christoph Ono
3 months
Some quick concept explorations with @chris_lueders_ around beefing up the visual expression of @MutinyWallet . Would you use it?
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