The Bitcoin Design Guide adoption

[hebasto]

The Bitcoin Design Guide was announced recently:

• https://twitter.com/bitcoin_design/status/1400128474321408009
• https://bitcoin.design/guide/
• https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Guide

I believe we should be guided by it in our further work.

[hebasto]

cc @Bosch-0 @ConorOkus @GBKS @johnsBeharry @harding

[eazydripz]

Thank you.

[GBKS]

Thank you for suggesting this, I am naturally all in favor. It might be helpful to drive a little deeper and talk about what it means to adopt the design guide. It has a lot of content and not everything will apply. Overall, I think the following areas are relevant:

• The whole Onboarding section, as the first experience a user has with a product is important for proper safety and privacy habits, and sets up future interactions. This section is written around the automatic cloud backup use case, but still provides a lot of relevant information that can be adapted.
• The Payments section, as sending and receiving bitcoin are fundamental activities.
• Wallet interoperability is important for free movement and interaction of users between applications.
• The Private Key Management and Case studies sections could be partially helpful based on which private key management schemes are supported.

There is some work happening for a page around nodes. This project could also help define that page, as Bitcoin Core is such a popular way to run nodes.

Maybe a good way to think about the guide is as a resource to review when starting to plan work on specific areas. And in turn, it would be fantastic if the guide could be improved based on learnings from this project.

[Rspigler]

Thanks! Looking forward to looking through this

[GBKS]

@Rspigler great, and please feel free to ask questions and provide feedback and criticism. We did our best with the guide, but it's still early and it can probably be better in many ways.