Design from a dimension of open-source

A talk on design to designers and developers at GDG DevFest Ikorordu 2019.

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1. Design from a dimension of open-source SHODIPO AYOMIDE | GDG DEVFEST IKORODU 2019
2. Sr. Developer Advocate @developerayo Shodipo Ayomide
3. Community Evangelist ➔ unStack ➔ Open Source Africa ➔ Developers Circles Lagos from Facebook ➔ NaijaHacks
4. Designers can’t get less creative, the more you produce design assets the more creative you get overtime. - SHODIPO AYOMIDE
5. OPEN-SOURCE
6. OPEN-SOURCE
7. THE PROBLEM
8. It’s quite hard to find a single designer who contribute to open-source efficiently.
9. Contributing to open-source as a Designer can be intimidating based on the level of features you see already prepared.
10. Tools used for contributing to open-source are quite hard to find!
11. Perception of designers not needed in open-source, just make it work.
12. THE SOLUTION
13. Resources: tailored towards how to contribute to open-source as a designer.
14. Tools: Developers/companies needs to create more tools to help aid designers contribute to open-source.
15. Some open-source contributors you should know...
16. Peace Ojemeh Samson Goddy Ada Nduka Oyom Prosper Otemuyiwa Moyinoluwa Adeyemi Ire Aderinokun Adewale Abati Shodipo Ayomide
17. Getting started with OSS
18. Open-Source in a nutshell is a free software built by the community for the community with improvements shared across different technical talents.
19. ➔ Mobile Application ➔ Web Apps ➔ Programming/Scripting Frameworks ➔ Wordpress and CMS Plugins/themes ➔ More...
20. The Web has been open-source since “View Page Source”
21. How can a designer begin contributing to open-source?
22. The GitHub issue tab is the best place to start out.
23. Evaluate a chosen project’s Layout and workflow.
24. Evaluate a chosen project’s client side usability.
25. Evaluate a chosen project’s color combinations.
26. Evaluate a chosen project’s user experience, transitions, fonts.
27. Evaluate a chosen project’s official logo.
28. Creating design layout for each components based on open issues.
29. Coming up with alternative design patterns
30. Implementing your designs into code if you are a Front-end Engineer.
31. Crappy things some engineers say about design.
32. Design is an ideology not a professional profession.
33. if the end product is quality software, why can't designers code?
34. if the end product is quality software, why can't designers code?
35. Design is necessary in building startup products and open-source product in the realm of open-source.
36. The web has been open-source for designers using the “Web Inspector”, live debugging design in CSS and JavaScript.
37. Version Control (design history)
38. Designing for multiple devices
39. Designing for multiple devices/responsiveness
40. Make Horrible design suck less
41. Always design for designers, developers often build for other developers to contribute to.
42. TOOLS
43. ➔ Jekyll ➔ GitHub Pages ➔ Heroku ➔ ZEIT NOW ➔ Netlify
44. Thank you, guys! Now, go forth and contribute to open-source as a designer!!! Twitter: @developerayo