reidwalley on Nostr: Watched a couple’a Andreas Antonopoulos videos, one in particular for IDEO which ...

Watched a couple’a Andreas Antonopoulos videos, one in particular for IDEO which focused on how much #Bitcoin could benefit from better UX.

Even though the video was from 2015 or 2016, my graphic designer instincts kicked in.

I’ll be attending a birthday party for my grandson later today and it’s a perfect opportunity for me to chat with family about onboarding to Bitcoin and Lighting. And as I look at different apps I realize:

• Some require email and password to set up

• Some require email and first name to set up

• Some require writing down 12-word seeds to set up

And all these peeps at the party are not gonna have an easy way to remember the unique password they created, and writing down a 12-word seed phrase and keeping it safe is definitely gonna be new and scary.

And they’ll have to do this while at a party, drinking, and I doubt any of them even has a password manager to save the password and there’s no place to safely store a 12-word seed phrase while they’re out partying.

Out at a party isn’t necessarily a safe environment for securing passwords and seed phrases. Especially for noobies.

Thinking back to when I was orange pulled in 2017, person had me install Bread App on my Android smartphone, walked me through how to display a QR code, then sent me $5 of BTC from his Bread App. It was all 100% new and weird and odd to me. I don’t even remember if I had to enter my email and first name, or email and create a password. But I know for sure I didn’t have to write down 12- word seed phrase to set up Bread App, but I was told that I absolutely had to write down my 12-word seed phrase once I got home.

Graphic designer instincts kickin’ in and thinking about easiest on-boarding solutions for peeps who are drinking and having a good time and not thinking about passwords and 12-word seed phrases.