#68 Sizzling fees

A calm one.

What a low-key week this was. We had some extremely hot days here, which I personally enjoy. But, they can be a bit of an energy-suck, and so it was here. Let’s get to it.

My PR for a new send fees page is up for review (preview). This takes our existing content around fees, marries it with Steyn’s research, and moves it to a separate page. Across on-chain and lighting, it can get pretty messy for designers to understand where fees come from and why, how they are calculated and how they change over time, and then how to communicate all that to users in simple, actionable ways, in the right moments. And then things keep changing, like with the big Phoenix update that was announced this week that goes pretty deep into how splicing can reduce fees on lightning. It’s all quite intricate.

Staying on the guide, I’m excited for the conversations around adding references to code libraries that build on the guide and its sister projects (UI Kit & Icons). Daniel is starting to make this a reality with his code resources page PR. It will take effort over time (what doesn’t, really), but it would be fantastic to have this ecosystem of related projects that built on each other and can still independently serve designers and developers at various stages of their projects, with a caring community around it all. Let’s see what we can do.

Here I mocked up two different approaches to the Saving Satoshi chapter 4 lesson. I’m a bit out of my depth here, creating advanced lessons for coders, so I am relying a lot on the team to make the calls. I just try to visualize the ideas they have, within the UX framework we have. That’s often a good way to think of yourself as a designer - a medium to crystalize and visualize everyone’s ideas and input. You reflect the design outcome back to them, and things move forward (ideally). Your own ideas and thoughts automatically find their way in as you do the work.

I finally made my through exporting revisions of all existing 110 screens on the Bitcoin UI Kit Screens page. Now let’s get to exporting new flows that are not on there yet, like multi-sig setup and send (which will change a lot over the next months with the work on revising the on-chain reference designs).

And the rest was quiet work. Conversations, calls, PR reviews, document revisions, research, some administrative stuff, etc.

Happy Sunday.

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