Bitcoin, Through a Designer's Lens

Most design work lives inside systems someone else already built. You make the button better, the flow smoother, the onboarding warmer. The work is real, but the foundations aren't yours to touch.
Then there's the other kind of work. Where the patterns haven't settled, the rules are still being figured out, and what you decide actually shapes how someone protects the wealth and value they've built up over years of their life. That kind of space is rare. Most designers go their whole careers without finding one.
Bitcoin is one of those spaces. A design problem most designers have never had a reason to look at, not because it's irrelevant but because the noise around it has made it easy to dismiss. Crypto bros, price charts, scams, the whole circus. Pretty easy to ignore the space altogether.
But underneath the noise is a design space nobody's really mapped. Real people using it, real money moving through it, and the interfaces they rely on are still being figured out. Most of the interesting questions haven't been answered yet, which is exactly what makes it worth looking at.
You don't need to understand Bitcoin to see what's broken in it. You just need to look at it the way a designer would.
That's the whole premise of this workshop. You walk in with your eyes. We hand you the case. We investigate together.
Think of this as a design investigation. You're not here to just learn theory... you're here to examine the evidence, find what's broken, and look for better answers.
Every investigation starts with understanding the case
What is money? Who's using Bitcoin and why? Real people, real situations, real consequences. You'll see what's at stake and why the design decisions matter so much.
Time to get your hands dirty.
You'll test real Bitcoin wallets in small teams. Send, receive, backup with no tutorials, no hand-holding. Just you, the interface, and whatever you discover. Fresh eyes catch what insiders miss.
What did you uncover?
Each team discusses their observations: the good, the broken, the fixable. You'll share what you learned and sketch lo-fi solutions for what you'd change. Evidence-based design, not assumptions.
Not mastery. Nobody becomes a Bitcoin UX expert in a single afternoon. But you'll leave with a clearer way of seeing the design landscape around money, a set of questions you probably haven't asked before, and maybe the realization that this space is way more interesting than you assumed.
If it clicks, great. If it doesn't, you'll still leave with a weirdly sticky thought about how casually we trade our financial privacy for convenience.
If you're tired of designing the same funnels and landing pages. If you're craving a design problem that feels genuinely new. If you've heard about Bitcoin but never really understood why people care... you'll fit right in.
Skepticism is welcome, curiosity is required, no prior knowledge needed.
Seats are limited to 16 people. We want this to feel like a conversation, not a lecture hall.
Here's how it works:
The ₹333 comes back to you at the end of the workshop. Need to cancel? Let us know atleast 24+ hours before and your deposit will be refunded.
Why the manual process? Because we care about who's in the room. This isn't a webinar... it's a small group investigation, and we want everyone there to be genuinely curious, not just casually interested.
Come curious, leave with a different lens.
That’s the whole point.
This is HODL - Hands On Design Lab: a space for designers to investigate Bitcoin without hype, pressure, or expectations. Just honest problems, open minds, and a case worth cracking.
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