Design from the realm of open-source - Open Source Initiative - State of the Source

Getting into an open-source can be quite intimidating as a designer. It's not something that you can just wake up in the morning and start doing if you've never been a designer before. From a high level, let's "design" our first open-source project, complete with quick methodologies, tips, tricks, and some extra bits.

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1. Design From The Realm of Open-Source Open Source Is the New Sauce - Abati Adewale Shodipo Ayomide | Open Source Initiative - State of the Source Conference 2020
2. I DO OPEN SOURCE @developerayo
3. Developer Advocate and Community Evangelist unStack Africa Developers Circles Lagos from Facebook React.js Lagos Open Source Community Africa AfricaHacks
4. Let’s get cooking
5. Designers can’t get less creative, the more you produce design assets the more creative you get overtime #experience
6. The Problem
7. It’s quite hard to find a single designer who contribute to open- source efficiently.
8. Perception of designers not needed in open-source, but just make it work ideology
9. The Solution
10. 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 for Designers.
11. Getting started with OSS
12. Open-Source in a nutshell is a free software built by the community for the community with improvements shared across different technical talents.
13. The Web has been open- source since `View Page Source`
14. Crappy things some engineers say about design.
15. Design is an ideology not a professional profession.
16. if the end product is quality software, why can't designers code?
17. Start Writing Documentations for other designers to see and follow along It’s a trend someone has to start
18. 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 Screenshot & Tweet This:
19. 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/
20. Thank You Question? Ask & Follow me on Twitter and GitHub @developerayo Shodipo Ayomide | Open Source Initiative - State of the Source Conference 2020