Adding contacts UX to Alby

We think it would be cool to have these features:

1. Store a list of people you transact with frequently over LN (i.e. contacts)

2. Transaction history on a per-contact basis

3. Request contacts for payments

Initial scope

A good goal for this project would be to add these features to the Alby browser extension. Alby is open source and has offered to share Figma files for us to work off of. We can add a section such as the below but for contacts:

Similar to the website design, we can add transaction history on a per-contact basis:

UX Topics

• "Add Contact" functionality

  • Account lookup for existing Alby users: https://feedback.getalby.com/-feature-request/posts/lightning-address-account-lookup

• What info is stored for Contacts

• Request functionality (probably the best thing about Venmo and similar apps)

Please reach out if this project seems interesting to you! Would love to team up with a designer. For development, Alby is based on Typescript which I have experience in, and I’d love to team up with other developers as well.

Credit to Bitcoin Design for the image: https://bitcoin.design/guide/daily-spending-wallet/contacts/