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Dev tools · June 3, 2021

The Bitcoin Design Guide

Open source handbook of bitcoin product best practices

The Bitcoin Design Guide launched on June 3, 2021 with 84 votes, #680 of 3,650 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

What it does

This free resource helps designers and developers build better Bitcoin products faster. The guide covers everything from Bitcoin basics to onboarding, key management, and transaction flows. Wheter you're seasoned or just getting started, this guide is for you.

The Bitcoin Design Guide is a reference for the design of bitcoin applications.

Bitcoin is a global payment protocol that anyone with Internet access can participate in and contribute to. However, because bitcoin’s use cases are as vast as its user base, building bitcoin applications can be complicated. We designed this guide to help anyone navigate those complexities—regardless of where they live or work. We can’t imagine every possible use case, but we can help you build for them. New to bitcoin? This section provides top-level overviews of open design , visual language , design principles , a technology primer and more. A closer look at the design process and frameworks, from personal finance use cases to units & symbols , the usage life cycle , user research , and…from bitcoin.design

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