Design from the realm of open-source

Design from the realm of open-source talk delivered at FutureSync Conference UK 2020,

Transcript

1. Design From The Realm of Open-Source Open Source Is the New Sauce - Abati Adewale Shodipo Ayomide | FutureSync Conference UK 2020
2. I DO OPEN SOURCE @developerayo
3. I DO OPEN SOURCE @developerayo
4. Developer Advocate and Community Evangelist unStack Africa Developers Circles Lagos from Facebook React.js Lagos Open Source Community Africa AfricaHacks
5. MEDIA DEVELOPER EXPERT AT CLOUDINARY & TECHNICAL INSTRUTOR AT EGGHEAD.IO
6. Let’s get cooking
7. Designers can’t get less creative, the more you produce design assets the more creative you get overtime #experience
8. The Problem
9. It’s quite hard to find a single designer who contribute to open- source efficiently.
10. Contributing to open-source as a Designer, starting out can be intimidating and confusing based on the level of features you see already prepared with little or no documentation for designers
11. The ideology of designers not needed in open-source, but just make it work.
12. The Solution
13. Resources: tailored towards how to contribute to open-source as a designer. Thanks to Open Source Design, Open Source Initiative and others creating design related content in relation to Open Source
14. Tools: Developers/companies need to create more tools to help aid designers contribute to open- source.
15. Designers need to understand how to communicate with Developers and Developers have to understand how to communicate with Designers
16. Getting started with OSS
17. Open-Source in a nutshell is a free software built by the community for the community with improvements shared across different technical talents.
18. The Web has been open- source since `View Page Source`
19. How can a designer begin contributing to open-source?
20. The GitHub issue tab is the best place to start out.
21. Evaluate a chosen project’s workflow, Client end usability, colour combination and every design related component
22. Never start a feature without consulting one of the project authors, if its a valid add and how it can also be improved
23. Coming up with alternative design patterns, but raising an issue in relation to why, how and timeline
24. Prototype your designs properly if you are contributing to an OS project where they careless about design so as to convince them of how this feature is supposed to work and not the way it currently works.
25. Crappy things some engineers say about design.
26. Design is an ideology not a professional profession.
27. Design is the Personality of your project, it needs to speak - @developerayo @developerayo_ at #FutureSync20 Screenshot & Tweet This:
28. If the end product is quality software, why can't designers code?
29. Design is one of the most significant department while building a startup product and also working on an open- source project.
30. The Web has been open-source for designers to contribute to using the `Web Inspector` which grants you access to live debugging design in CSS.
31. DEMO
32. Version Control `design history` & Something like Git for Designers, Being able to push designs between design tools with ease.
33. Designing for multiple devices/ responsiveness.
34. Start Writing Documentations for other designers to see and follow along It’s a trend someone has to start
35. Someone didn’t start because they believed someone else would, at the end, no one end’s up starting until a couple of years later. @developerayo at #FutureSync20 Screenshot & Tweet This:
36. TOOLS
37. •Figma •Adobe XD •Sketch DESIGN
38. •InVision Studio •Adobe XD •Origami Studio: •Sketch •Webflow •Framer •Zeplin PROTOTYPING
39. •Zeplin •Slack •Figma •InVision DISCUSSIONS AND COLLABORATIONS
40. Resources where not openly distributed as it is today, we have people writing, creating video content, runnings workshops, conference talks, writing research articles and lot’s more Today is the best time to start contributing to open source as a designer and I believe you should start now => GitHub.com
41. Some Resources https://opensource.org/ https://opensourcedesign.net/ https://www.oscafrica.org/ https://itsfoss.com/ https://opensource.facebook.com/ https://opensource.google/ https://opensource.microsoft.com/ https://opensource.twitter.com/
42. Thank You Questions? Ask & Follow me on Twitter and GitHub @developerayo_ Shodipo Ayomide | FutureSync Conference UK 2020