Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Open Source Needs More Design Superheroes
Search
Julie Ann Horvath
August 16, 2013
Design
10
770
Open Source Needs More Design Superheroes
Julie Ann Horvath
August 16, 2013
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Julie Ann Horvath
See All by Julie Ann Horvath
Engineering Learning Lunch on Writing CSS as a Team
nrrrdcore
1
210
Because People
nrrrdcore
7
1.4k
Coder Day Of Service Keynote
nrrrdcore
3
620
Just Ship It
nrrrdcore
37
4.3k
GitHub for Designers
nrrrdcore
18
2.5k
Fast Design Decision-Making for the Everyday Developer
nrrrdcore
15
1.1k
Building a Design Environment
nrrrdcore
16
15k
JS.CONF.EU 2012 - Because F$%k Photoshop
nrrrdcore
16
4.7k
GitHub Summit 2012
nrrrdcore
5
940
Other Decks in Design
See All in Design
プロジェクト内でデザイナーができること 日経電子版アプリ機能開発「For You」#nikkei_tech_talk
nikkei_engineer_recruiting
8
3.8k
Мышление дизайнера историями. Как текстовые модели человеческого поведения помогают проектировать
ashapiro
0
220
教育分野に強いUIデザイナー / 山口哲弘ポートフォリオ
t2yamaguchi429
0
380
【Adobe MAX Japan 2025】上手にFireflyにお願いしてウェブデザイン案を出すぞ!
cremacrema
7
5.6k
Crisp Code inc. ブランドガイドライン
so_kotani
1
180
LLMによるRAG評価用合成テストデータの生成
licux
6
1.1k
Hatena Engineer Seminar #33 チームと開発するためのモック
takuwolog
0
290
「描く」という衝動に立ち返る〜Figma Drawがひらく思考のかたち〜
transit_kix
1
830
本当に欲しかったのはモノレポツールではなく、tsconfigの設定だった / monorepo-tsconfig
rdlabo
1
150
NAHO SHIMONO_Portfolio2025
nahohphp
0
760
株式会社デイトラ様│コーポレートサイト│コンセプトシート
haruka_capeo
0
2k
ビジネス成果を最大限に発揮するPORTFOLIO
ataxi1003
0
160
Featured
See All Featured
Let's Do A Bunch of Simple Stuff to Make Websites Faster
chriscoyier
507
140k
Documentation Writing (for coders)
carmenintech
71
4.9k
The World Runs on Bad Software
bkeepers
PRO
68
11k
Raft: Consensus for Rubyists
vanstee
139
7k
Making the Leap to Tech Lead
cromwellryan
134
9.3k
The Cult of Friendly URLs
andyhume
79
6.4k
Helping Users Find Their Own Way: Creating Modern Search Experiences
danielanewman
29
2.6k
The Myth of the Modular Monolith - Day 2 Keynote - Rails World 2024
eileencodes
26
2.8k
Rebuilding a faster, lazier Slack
samanthasiow
81
9k
Build The Right Thing And Hit Your Dates
maggiecrowley
36
2.7k
Side Projects
sachag
454
42k
Optimizing for Happiness
mojombo
379
70k
Transcript
Hybrid 2013
Hi I’m Julie
Hello My name is Julie.
:ok_woman:
Coffee ( Things I enjoy )
Witty TV Shows ( Things I enjoy )
Animated Gifs!!! ( Things I enjoy )
None
None
None
None
Airplanes Not good
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I mostly write CSS ^^^ actual job ^^^
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Internet
Open source is awesome.
None
None
All frontend code is open source by default.
The web is open by default.
Design ( Not so open )
“Developers are more open, contribute code and discuss about bettering
each other...
“...While Designers seem secretive, ego- filled and seeking pointless exclusivity.”
The feeling is mutual. ( See, we agree on something!
)
“We’re all making software.”
None
None
@jessicahische
“I’m gonna take all of your drop caps and turn
them into CSS and open source them.”
None
None
@jessicahische
“I’m gonna take all of your drop caps and turn
them into CSS and open source them.”
Open source = Giving your work away for free (
More on this in a bit )
This is just one misconception about open source.
There are tons.
Open Source Design Superheroes
That’s all of you!
None
Misconception #1
Open source = Giving your work away for free
Open source != Giving your work away for free
None
Don’t give away anything that pays your rent.
Build a portfolio.
None
Work with developers.
None
Leave your comfort zone.
But what about my secret sauce?
None
Misconception #2
You have to be a hardcore coder to contribute to
open source projects.
If you know HTML and CSS...
Or like designing logos, identity...
Or even illustrating...
Then you can contribute to an open source project.
None
None
None
Misconception #3
Open source is hard.
GitHub is hell-bent on lowering the barrier to contributing to
open source projects.
None
Start with something small.
Join a conversation.
Provide feedback on a pull request.
When you’re ready, jump in.
GitHub Pages Static public web hosting, for free.
Create a repo
None
Turn Pages “on”
None
None
None
None
None
None
3rd Law of GitHub
Fork-N Go
None
sheetsee.js
Let’s start making the web better for eachother.
Thank you! ✌