#50 Specs
The details aren't details, they make the product.
Lots of detail work this week. Let’s start with Saving Satoshi. As I mentioned in the last one, I put together a Figma page with all screens and states involved in the chapter 1 experience, along with feedback we received. This provides a sort of user journey map where everyone in the team can easily see what learners go through and how it all fits together (or not). It’s basically like zooming out, it changes your perspective.
Image generation also continued, although I really only spent an hour or so. The theme this week was chapter 3, which is about the 51% attack where we fight against our nemesis. The big thing here is that we actually define who that is, and what they are like. A clean-cut unscrupulous, and somewhat generic, business man (like below)? Or a more complex character with a richer back story? We’ll have a story session next week to define that, which will then help with image generation.
By the way, Upscayl is amazing for upscaling AI-generated images, which often are somewhat low-res.
For Wallet Scrutiny, I spec’ed out the new wallet page. There’s now a nice design system with colors, icons, components, text styles, etc, to guide development. Kept it fairly simple as a foundation that can be built on in the future.
Bitcoin Core App development is progressing and Johnny and Jarol are working hard to squeeze in a few more features for V1 (to-do list). Huge thanks to the both of them. Here’s a first mock-up for the network traffic screen, which might still make it in at the last minute. I’m super pumped about V1 wrapping up.
I posted this 1-year old video below in the Discord of the Product Community I mentioned last week, as there was a question around how to structure a simple branding project.
In a UX research call this week, it also come up to look back at past projects in the design community and capture what tools and processes those used, how it worked out, etc. It’s been in my backlog for a while to document more process-related things, I’d really like to get to that at some point soon. Why keep re-inventing the wheel when we have great references and experiences to work with.
Ordinals are definitely exploding right now, and creating them has become dead simple (quite impressive how simple it is). I am a bit disappointed that the first inscription on mainnet was a “crypto dick butt”, and that hype boys and scammers are already entering. Would bitcoin be the same today if Satoshi had left a less meaningful message in the genesis block? So, this low-brow stuff is not the revolution I am here for, and I hope this capability will be generally used intelligently to create worthwhile things. But, having observed “crypto” for a few years now, I assume we will see a lot of absurdity and some wreckage further down this particular road. Another way that bitcoin as a network can prove its resilience further.
On another note, check out all these amazing calls coming up in the community.
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