Following on from yesterdays post I’ve been reading different perspectives on how to display bitcoin vs. sats, including this piece: https://bitcoin.design/guide/designing-products/units-and-symbols/ and https://bitcoinerrorlog.medium.com/bip-177-for-dummies-3993db575490

It got me thinking: designing products means being opinionated. Every detail is a choice—the placement of a pixel, the font, the flow.

The entire app is a sum of thousands of tiny decisions that shape how people experience it. I’m still exploring what feels right for displaying bitcoin and sats in Lightswap... I'll share what we decide.

While that’s on my mind, I’ve been designing the confirmation screen shown before the app executes a request (that affects your funds, not say, asking for the price).

The current draft is stripped back: black and white, no icons or images. In Lightswap’s UI, everything shares a subtle curvature—buttons, icons, and typography (SF Rounded on iPhone).

The look draws some inspiration from fintech apps, but mostly from experimenting and simplifying. It’s close to where I want it for v1, though there’s more refinement ahead. I want to keep the design conversational and somewhat informal at all times.

The verbs on this page are: sell, buy, send, ping, play - short, direct, a bit playful.

Curious what you think of the design so far?!