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