4.0 Designing a privacy focused Bitcoin wallet UX
Channel: Wasabi Wallet
Date: 06/03/2021

Dan Walmsley [@dwuk86] speaks about his experience of creating the original Wasabi 1.0 UI / UX in only three weeks to demo it at a Bitcoin conference. It is a difficult trade-off to give power-users all the features they want, while preventing them from privacy breaking foot-guns. Wasabi 2.0 focuses on making the UI intuitive and easy to use for everyone, while preserving the vast privacy features.

Wasabi Wallet is an open-source, non-custodial and privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet for desktop. Wasabi creates trustless CoinJoin transactions over the Tor anonymity network. The CoinJoin coordinator cannot steal from, nor breach the privacy of the participants.

Website: https://WasabiWallet.io​
Blog: https://blog.WasabiWallet.io​
Documentation: https://docs.WasabiWallet.io​
GitHub: https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi​
Podcast: https://anchor.fm/Wasabikas

00:00    Introduction
02:08   How Dan  started writing code (max asks the question)
02:20   Dan explains how he  began writing code
09:30   From Perspex to Avalonia - How Dan discovered the Avalonia Project.
14:44   Dan explains the difference between an IDE and a Framework 
18:37   Challenges of an Open Contribution Model
23:56  How Avalonia became a “production ready” project
25:22  Introducing Avalonia to Wasabi Wallet
29:48 Dan talks about meeting Nopara73 and Lucas Ontivero in Lisbon 
36:25  How Wasabi 1.0’s initial UX design was conceptualized.
38:58  Dark Mode by default, why wasabi wallet’s default setting is dark mode
40:49  Changes to the UI over time 
53.52  Dan explains the differences between UI and UX.
58:06  How will wasabi 2.0 simultaneously satisfy the needs of its power users and the newcomers?
1:09:34  Fostering long term sustainable development in free software 
1:13:02  Collaboration among free software -Wasabi and Avalonia’s upstream dependency